Jean Webster Quotes

“Please be thinking about me. I'm quite lonely and I want to be thought about”

“Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.”

“The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.”

“She was by nature a sunny soul”

“It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.”

“I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.”

“Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

You never answered my question and it was very important.

ARE YOU BALD?”

“It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.”

“‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.”

“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires”

“The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.”

“This is your heart. Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.”

“I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I
shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.”