Quotes About Louisa May Alcott

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.

It was fortunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment...

in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.

Do you consider shoes unhealthy? he asked, surveying the socks with respectful interest

Laurie liked her better for it, and found himself both admiring and respecting the brave patience that made the most of opportunity, and the cheerful spirit that covered poverty with flowers.

I can't love anyone else; and I'll never forget you, Jo, never! never! with a stamp to emphasize his passionate words. - Laurie

Who are your heroes? asked Jo. Grandfather and Napoleon. Which lady here do you think prettiest? said Sallie. Margaret. Which do you like best? from Fred. Jo, of course.

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid. What it was, she had no idea as yet, but left it for time to tell her, and meanwhile, found her greatest affliction in the fact that she couldn't read, run and ride as much as she liked.

Her monstrosities in the way of cattle would have taken prizes at an agricultural fair, and the perilous pitching of her vessels would have produced seasickness in the most nautical observer, if the utter disregard to all known rules of shipbuilding and rigging had not convulsed him with laughter at the first glance.

I don't understand it. What can there be in a simple little story like that to make people praise it so?" she said, quite bewildered. "There is truth in it, Jo, that's the secret.

Whatever his feelings might have been, Laurie found aa vent for them in a long low whistle and the fearful prediction as they parted at the gate, Mark my words, Jo, you'll go next.

That's the interferingest chap I ever see

Don't laugh, but your nose is such a comfort to me, and Amy softly caressed the well-cut feature with artistic satisfaction.

the smile vanished, and presently a tear lay shining on the window ledge. Beth whisked it off, and

I think anxiety is very interesting," observed Amy, eating sugar pensively.

George is regularly jolly; though now he's a minister

Dirty old hole, isn't it? The dirt is picturesque so I don't mind.

It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.

Please give these to your mother, and tell her I like the medicine she sent me very much. -Laurie

Who are your heroes?' asked Jo. 'Grandfather and Napoleon.' 'Which lady here do you think prettiest? said Sallie. 'Margaret. 'Which do you like best? from Fred. 'Jo, of course.

and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her. • LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, Little Women

I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

I'm slightly obsessed with women's history, so I'd love to talk to Emily Dickinson or Louisa May Alcott.

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.