Louisa May Alcott: Quotes about love

Louisa May Alcott was American novelist. Explore interesting quotes on love.

Louisa May Alcott: 348 quotes77 likes

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”

Variant: The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

“Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Men

Source: Little Men

“It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.”

Louisa May Alcott

Source: Marjorie's Three Gifts

“Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“Love is a great beautifier.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women (1868), Ch. 24 : Gossip

“… for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“Be worthy love, and love will come.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“… the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can”

Louisa May Alcott book Rose in Bloom

Source: Rose in Bloom

“Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women (1868), Ch. 40 : The Valley Of The Shadow
Source: Little Women Book Two Book: Good Wives

“life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“… and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“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

“The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

“I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”

Louisa May Alcott

“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

“…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

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

Louisa May Alcott book Little Men

Source: Little Men

“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

“Love covers a multitude of sins…”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women