Frances Hodgson Burnett Quotes

Why, we are just the same - I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not yo...

We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain...

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know ...

you are going to be sent home....I 'm glad of it but where's HOME ?

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts- just mere thou...

I wish I was friends with things," he said at last, "but I'm not. I never had anything to be friends...

It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done then they begin to hope it c...

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or mere...

We do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if it is not granted to us and t...

I know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even pretend it away. -Sara

Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.

Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a...

The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she l...

Of course there must be lots of magic in the world but people don't know what it is like or how to m...

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sence enough to get hold of it and make it ...

You said th' Magic was in my back. Th' doctor calls it rheumatics.

If you keep doing it everyday as regularly as soldiers go through drill, we shall see what will happ...

Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought com...

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to ...

Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things - nic...

Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"..."It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain...

Thoughts -- just mere thoughts -- are as powerful as electric batteries -- as good for one as sunlig...

One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoug...

My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and imp...

At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact...

One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts--just mere thou...

They're a pair of young Satans.

One of the strangest things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite s...

She had never been taught to ask permission to do things, and she knew nothing at all about authorit...

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it ...

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

…Mrs. Warren allowed her book to fall closed upon her lap, and her attractive face awakened to an ex...

Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if...

He sat down in his chair by the fire and began to chat, as was his habit before he and his wife part...

When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power ...

If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King ...

What does it say?" asked my lord."It says, `Good-night, God keep you all the night!'--just what she ...

If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there...

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console ...

The mere fact that Lottie had come and gone away again made things seem a little worse-just as perha...

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was sudd...

It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world.

There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard ...

How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. P...

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was sudd...

The sun is shining - the sun is shining. That is the Magic. The flower are growing - the roots are s...

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful thi...

To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ...

Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart

...if He made us, He must know He is to blame when He has made us weak or evil. And He must understa...

The great strength she had used in the old days to conquer and subdue, to win her will and to defend...

Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be...

Perhaps you can feel if you can’t hear,” was her fancy. “Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow,...

I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,” she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away an...

How is it that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. P...

How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. P...