Quotes from Jean Webster

Seseorang tidak akan merindukan apa yang tidak dia miliki, tapi sungguh sulit rasanya hidup tanpa benda-benda tertentu setelah dia terbiasa memilikinya.

The way people are forever rolling their eyes to heaven and saying, "Perhaps it's all for the best," when they are perfectly dead sure it's not, makes me enraged. Humility or resignation or whatever you choose to call it, is simply impotent inertia.

How in the world," Georgie demanded, "do you ever make them let you do all these things? I stuck in three innocent little thumb-tacks to-day, and Peters descended upon me bristling with wrath, and said he'd report me if I didn't pull them out." "We never ask," explained Patty. "It's the only way.

It's the one touch of nature that makes the whole world kin. (That isn't original. I got it out of one of Shakespeare's plays). However

I think that everyone, no matter how many troubles he may have when he grows up, ought to have a happy childhood to look back upon. And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.

True it is that troubles niver come single, they're married an' has children.

The only explanation I can think of is that he is insane, and there are so many insane people in the world that it isn't even interesting.

Tis a thankless world

Please forgive me for being impertinent and ungrateful. I was badly brought up.

Non sono le grandi disgrazie della vita che esigono forza di carattere da noi. Chiunque può fronteggiare una grave crisi e rimettersi in piedi con coraggio dopo una tragedia, ma per sopportare le piccole noie quotidiane con il sorriso sulle labbra, ecco, per quello penso che ci voglia molto coraggio e determinazione!

Me gustaría ver el mundo entero, y algún día lo conseguiré... cuando sea una gran autora, pintora, actriz o cualquier otra cosa grande que llegue a ser. La vida errante me atrae mucho.

I was so dazed when I got to the station that I almost took a train for St. Louis. And you were pretty dazed, too. You forgot to give me any tea. But we're both very, very happy, aren't we?

What seems to you the right thing for me to do? Judy

You should see the way this college is studying!

Dear Daddy, Do you observe the postmark?

so you must be as punctilious in sending them as though it were a bill that you were paying. I hope that they will always be respectful in tone and will reflect credit on your training.

Qué graciosos son los hombres! Cuando quieren hacernos un cumplido dicen que tenemos una mentalidad masculina.

He compuesto un poema a la victoria: ¡Quién lo hubiera creído! ¡El doctor MacRae ha sonreído! ¡Es verdad!

I like to pretend that you belong to me, just to play with the idea, but of course I know you don't. I'm alone, really-with my back to the wall fighting the world-and I get sort of gaspy when I think about it. I put it out of my mind, and keep on pretending ~

The aim of the John Grier Home (as you doubtless know and heartily approve of) is to turn the ninety-seven orphans into ninety-seven twins.

Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires spirit.

Anyway, that's the way I feel—and I've refused to marry him. I

You live in a glass house, Mr. Smith.

Os homens não são engraçados? Quando querem lhe fazer o maior elogio, ingenuamente dizem que você tem uma mente masculina.