Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
The Famous Five - Five on a Hike Together
Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.
Nothing like having a bucket of cold water flung over you to make you see things as they really are!
The Famous Five - Five Have a Mystery to Solve
I don't know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors.
The Famous Five - Five Go Off in a Caravan
The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
The Circus Series - Mr Galliano's Circus
1You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.
I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.
The Barney Mysteries - The Rubadub Mystery
The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them - I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them - the point is that I know a good person when I see one.
The Barney Mysteries - The Rubadub Mystery
"Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!" said Jimmy longingly. "How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!"
The Circus Series - Mr Galliano's Circus
The moon was coming slowly up over the hill in front of them. The countryside was bathed in light, pale and cold and silvery. Everything could be seen quite plainly, and Lotta and Jimmy thought it was just like daytime with the colours missing.
The Circus Series - Mr Galliano's Circus