The best Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

All women are princesses, it is our right.

If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one.

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

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."

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.