Louisa May Alcott: Likeness

Louisa May Alcott was American novelist. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
Louisa May Alcott: 348 quotes77 likes

“I like good strong words that mean something…”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“… and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I never feel wither shame, remorse or fear, I sometimes wish it was not necessary as I don't like the trouble, but as for any moral sense of principle, I haven't a particle. Many people are like me as actions prove, but they are not so frank in owning it and insist on keeping up the humbug of virtue. You'll find that is true, Rose, when you know the world better.”

Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase

A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)

“Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?"
"Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking
mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.”

Louisa May Alcott

Variant: Some stories are so familiar its like going home.

“Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.”

Louisa May Alcott

“You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

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

Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase

Source: A Long Fatal Love Chase

“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.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“… for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.”

Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase

Source: A Long Fatal Love Chase

“When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least…”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“But, like all happiness, it did not last long…”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.”

Louisa May Alcott book An Old-Fashioned Girl

Source: An Old-Fashioned Girl