Louisa May Alcott: Trending quotes (page 5)

“… for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.”

“…we're twins, and so we love each other more than other people…”

“…the violin — that most human of all instruments…”

“It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.”

“He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.”

“We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't.”

“Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.”

“Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.”

“I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all some day.”

“Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.”

“He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.”

“If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.”

“Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.”

“Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.”

“What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?”

“Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -”

“Love covers a multitude of sins…”

“I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.”

“…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.”