Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes

“But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.”

“Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.”

“I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.”

“What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.”

“If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.”

“… Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.”

“He had the effect on her of a window being thrown open and fresh air and sunlight being let in”