Quotes from E. Nesbit

One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.

It is not, Dear, because I am alone, For I am lonelier when the rest are near, But that my place against your heart has grown Too dear to dream of when you are not here.

Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.

Time and space are only forms of thought.

Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.

Time is but a mode of thought

It wouldn't do to go mixing up the present and the past, and cutting bits out of one to fit into the other.

The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.

I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.

It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.

There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done