E. Nesbit

Quotes

• “I don't agree with you in the least," said Temple— "about marriage, I mean. A man ought to want to get married—""To anyb...”
• “There was a pleasant party of barge people round the fire. You might not have thought it pleasant, but they did; for the...”
• “For really there is nothing like wings for getting you into trouble. But, on the other hand, if you are in trouble, ther...”
• “I don't understand," says Gerald, alone in his third- class carriage, "how railway trains and magic can go on at the sam...”
• “I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never...”
• “There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue...”
• “Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything ...”
• “It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be d...”
• “This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they are wrong sometim...”
• “Gerald's look assured her that he and the others would be as near angels as children could be without ceasing to be huma...”
• “It wouldn't do to go mixing up the present and the past, and cutting bits out of one to fit into the other.”
• “Perhaps there's given up being magic because people didn't believe in it any more.”