14 quotes
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Little Women (1868)
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
Little Women (1868)
Lovely weather so far; I don't know how long it will last, but I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
Little Women (1868)
Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety. It shows itself in acts rather than in words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.
Little Women (1868)
Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man out of his wits just for the fun of it.
Little Women (1868)
I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.
Little Women (1868)
When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do.
Little Women (1868)
It was not a fashionable place, but even among the pleasant people there, the girls made few friends, preferring to live for one another.
Little Women (1868)
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
Little Women (1868)
That's just why, because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
Little Women (1868)
I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!
Little Women (1868)
Love is a great beautifier.
Little Women (1868)
Housekeeping ain't no joke.
Little Women (1868)
If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don’t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.
Little Women (1868)