Frances Hodgson Burnett quotes

Frances Hodgson Burnett was a British-American novelist and playwright, celebrated for her beloved children's books. Her most famous works include "The Secret Garden," "A Little Princess," and "Little Lord Fauntleroy." She continues to enchant readers around the world with her timeless stories of hope and transformation. Here are 64 of her quotes:

Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story. (Frances Hodgson Burnett)

There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about the country with her sword drawn, rescuing and defending everyone in distress. She always wants to fight when she sees people in trouble.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.

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That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Soldiers don't complain... I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

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I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.

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Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

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Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.

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Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen. (Frances Hodgson Burnett)

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.

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And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.

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As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive.

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Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young. They're still princesses.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Never thee stop believin' in th' Big Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it - and call it what tha' likes. Tha' wert singin' to it when I come into t' garden. (Frances Hodgson Burnett)

To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live.

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Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Occupation: American Playwright
Born: November 24, 1849
Died: October 29, 1924
Quotes count: 64
Wikipedia: Frances Hodgson Burnett

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