Louisa May Alcott Quotes - Page 15

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• Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Law, Next Day, Secret

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.414, Delphi Classics

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• …because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Energy, Genius, Want

  Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy (2013). “Little Women: An Annotated Edition”, p.502, Harvard University Press

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• Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Strong, Believe, Self

  "Gather Together in My Name". Book by Maya Angelou, p. 17, 1974.

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• Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Sunshine, Weather, Cheerful

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1012, e-artnow

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• Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Mother, Sweet, Children

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Eight Cousins & Rose in Bloom - A Sequel (Children’s Classic): A Story of Rose Campbell”, p.142, e-artnow

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• He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Eye, Dark, Autumn

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Thorndike Pr

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