The best Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden

Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart.

"Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are."

A Little Princess

But only be good, dear, only be brave, only be kind and true always, and then you will never hurt any one, so long as you live, and you may help many, and the big world may be better because my little child was born.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Dearest says that is the best kind of goodness; not to think about yourself, but to think about other people.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

And that is best of all, Ceddie, it is better than everything else, that the world should be a little better because a man has lived - even ever so little better, dearest.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

It had never occurred to his honest, simple little mind that there were people who could forget kindnesses.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

To see each of his ugly, selfish motives changed into a good and generous one by the simplicity of a child was a singular experience.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

She said that perhaps it was not so easy to be very rich; that if any one had so many things always, one might sometimes forget that every one else was not so fortunate, and that one who is rich should always be careful and try to remember.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

When a man is very good and knows a great deal, he is elected president.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

He knew nothing of earls and castles; he was quite ignorant of all grand and splendid things; but he was always lovable because he was simple and loving. To be so is like being born a king.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Everything was not as picturesque when seen near by, as it looked from a distance. She had found idleness and poverty and ignorance where there should have been comfort and industry.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

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Miss Herbert: "Come here, Lord Fauntleroy and tell me why you look at me so."
Ceddie Erroll: "I was thinking how beautiful you are."

Little Lord Fauntleroy

If any one had told me I could be fond of a child, I should not have believed them. I always detested children -- my own more than the rest. I am fond of this one and he is fond of me. I am not popular; I never was. But he is fond of me. He was never afraid of me - he always trusted me. He would have filled my place better than I have filled it. I know that. He would have been an honor to the name.

Earl of Dorincourt in Little Lord Fauntleroy

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

Values Roses

You should never trust a woman who just had her heart broken. We tend to lie.

Bree Van De Kamp in Desperate Housewives - Season 1 Episode 12

Women Breakup

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Life Optimism Dancing Rain Positive Quotes

Children have got to be free to lead their own lives.

Sebastian in The Little Mermaid

Children & Childhood Upbringing

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

Zeus in Hercules

Heart Heros Size

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Astrid Lindgren

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Darkness

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

Hogwarts

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Falling in love

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty Love declerations

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Sebastian Fitzek in Therapy

Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

There are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Cornelia Funke

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