Top 40 E. Nesbit Quotes (2024 Update)

E. Nesbit Quote: “Time and space are only forms of thought.”

1. “Time and space are only forms of thought.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “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 had never done.”

2. “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 had never done.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “There is no bond like having read and liked the same books.”

3. “There is no bond like having read and liked the same books.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “The chestnut’s proud, and the lilac’s pretty, The poplar’s gentle and tall, But the plane tree’s kind to the poor dull city – I love him best of all.”

4. “The chestnut’s proud, and the lilac’s pretty, The poplar’s gentle and tall, But the plane tree’s kind to the poor dull city – I love him best of all.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “It is all very wonderful and mysterious, as all life is apt to be if you go a little below the crust, and are not content just to read newspapers and go by the Tube Railway, and buy your clothes ready-made, and think nothing can be true unless it is uninteresting.”

5. “It is all very wonderful and mysterious, as all life is apt to be if you go a little below the crust, and are not content just to read newspapers and go by the Tube Railway, and buy your clothes ready-made, and think nothing can be true unless it is uninteresting.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.”

6. “Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through.”

7. “A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.”

8. “There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read – unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”

9. “There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read – unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “Also she had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it’s not so dull as it sounds. It just means that a person is able to know that you are unhappy, and to love you extra on that account, without bothering you by telling you all the time how sorry she is for you.”

10. “Also she had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it’s not so dull as it sounds. It just means that a person is able to know that you are unhappy, and to love you extra on that account, without bothering you by telling you all the time how sorry she is for you.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don’t want to be un-friends.”

11. “I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don’t want to be un-friends.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.”

12. “Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “Ladylike is the beastliest word there is, I think. If a girl isn’t a lady, it isn’t worth while to be only like one, she’d better let it alone and be a free and happy bounder.”

13. “Ladylike is the beastliest word there is, I think. If a girl isn’t a lady, it isn’t worth while to be only like one, she’d better let it alone and be a free and happy bounder.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren’t.”

14. “It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren’t.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “I’ll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you’ll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden’s soul, and say: “How sweet these cottage gardens are!””

15. “I’ll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you’ll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden’s soul, and say: “How sweet these cottage gardens are!””

E. Nesbit Quote: “Then suddenly Jack was a changed boy. Something wonderful had happened to him, and it had made him different. It sometimes happened to people that they see or hear something quite wonderful and then they are never altogether the same again.”

16. “Then suddenly Jack was a changed boy. Something wonderful had happened to him, and it had made him different. It sometimes happened to people that they see or hear something quite wonderful and then they are never altogether the same again.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.”

17. “It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.”

18. “It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid work.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.”

19. “I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “It is not, Dear, because I am alone, For I am lonelier when the rest are near, But that my place against your heart has grown Too dear to dream of when you are not here.”

20. “It is not, Dear, because I am alone, For I am lonelier when the rest are near, But that my place against your heart has grown Too dear to dream of when you are not here.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “I have no doubt that you will wish to know what the princess lived on, during the long years when the dragon did the cooking. My dear, she lived on her income, and that is a thing that a great many people would like to be able to do.”

21. “I have no doubt that you will wish to know what the princess lived on, during the long years when the dragon did the cooking. My dear, she lived on her income, and that is a thing that a great many people would like to be able to do.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “Girls are just as clever as boys, and don’t you forget it!”

22. “Girls are just as clever as boys, and don’t you forget it!”

E. Nesbit Quote: “I’ve not got much money, but I’ve got heaps of ideas.”

23. “I’ve not got much money, but I’ve got heaps of ideas.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “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 done.”

24. “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 done.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “No, it’s not French,” said Peter. “Try him with French if you know so much about it,” said the farmer-man. “Parlay voo Frongsay?” began Peter, boldly, and the next moment the crowd recoiled again, for the man with the wild eyes had left leaning against the wall, and had sprung forward and caught Peter’s hands, and begun to pour forth a flood of words which, though he could not understand a word of them, Peter knew the sound of.”

25. “No, it’s not French,” said Peter. “Try him with French if you know so much about it,” said the farmer-man. “Parlay voo Frongsay?” began Peter, boldly, and the next moment the crowd recoiled again, for the man with the wild eyes had left leaning against the wall, and had sprung forward and caught Peter’s hands, and begun to pour forth a flood of words which, though he could not understand a word of them, Peter knew the sound of.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “And that, my dear children, is the moral of this chapter. I did not mean it to have a moral, but morals are nasty forward beings, and will keep putting in their oars where they are not wanted. And since the moral has crept in, quite against my wishes, you might as well think of it...”

26. “And that, my dear children, is the moral of this chapter. I did not mean it to have a moral, but morals are nasty forward beings, and will keep putting in their oars where they are not wanted. And since the moral has crept in, quite against my wishes, you might as well think of it...”

E. Nesbit Quote: “Because only cowards and snivellers cry, and my Father is the bravest man in the world.”

27. “Because only cowards and snivellers cry, and my Father is the bravest man in the world.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “Being editors is not the best way to wealth. We all feel this now, and highwaymen are not respected any more like they used to be.”

28. “Being editors is not the best way to wealth. We all feel this now, and highwaymen are not respected any more like they used to be.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “It has been said that all roads lead to Rome; this may be true, but at any rate, in early youth I am quite sure that many roads lead to BED, and stop there–or YOU do.”

29. “It has been said that all roads lead to Rome; this may be true, but at any rate, in early youth I am quite sure that many roads lead to BED, and stop there–or YOU do.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “The ones I got are all right,’ Jane said; ‘I know they are, because the man at the shop said they were worth thribble the money–’ ‘I’m sure thribble isn’t grammar,’ Anthea said. ‘Of course it isn’t,’ said Cyril; ’one word can’t be grammar all by itself, so you needn’t be so jolly clever.”

30. “The ones I got are all right,’ Jane said; ‘I know they are, because the man at the shop said they were worth thribble the money–’ ‘I’m sure thribble isn’t grammar,’ Anthea said. ‘Of course it isn’t,’ said Cyril; ’one word can’t be grammar all by itself, so you needn’t be so jolly clever.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.”

31. “Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “I can’t think what made him so horrid. Perhaps it was because he had been so very nice and kind all the earlier part of the day, and now he had to have a change. This is called reaction. One notices it now and then in oneself. Sometimes when one has been extra good for a longer time than usual, one is suddenly attacked by a violent fit of not being good at all.”

32. “I can’t think what made him so horrid. Perhaps it was because he had been so very nice and kind all the earlier part of the day, and now he had to have a change. This is called reaction. One notices it now and then in oneself. Sometimes when one has been extra good for a longer time than usual, one is suddenly attacked by a violent fit of not being good at all.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “I think magic went out when people began to have steam-engines, and newspapers, and telephones and wireless telegraphing.”

33. “I think magic went out when people began to have steam-engines, and newspapers, and telephones and wireless telegraphing.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “If you don’t go with the tide of a dream – if you resist it – you wake up, you know.”

34. “If you don’t go with the tide of a dream – if you resist it – you wake up, you know.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “Sometimes, in moments of great need, we can do wonderful things.”

35. “Sometimes, in moments of great need, we can do wonderful things.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “Albert, you are more highly privileged than ever I was. No one ever made me a nice dungeon when I was your age. I think I had better leave you where you are.”

36. “Albert, you are more highly privileged than ever I was. No one ever made me a nice dungeon when I was your age. I think I had better leave you where you are.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “Robert explained how much simpler it was to pay money for things than to exchange them as the people were doing in the market. Later on the soldier gave the coins to his captain, who, later still, showed them to Pharaoh, who of course kept them and was much struck with the idea. That was really how coins first came to be used in Egypt. You will not believe this, I daresay, but really, if you believe the rest of the story, I don’t see why you shouldn’t believe this as well.”

37. “Robert explained how much simpler it was to pay money for things than to exchange them as the people were doing in the market. Later on the soldier gave the coins to his captain, who, later still, showed them to Pharaoh, who of course kept them and was much struck with the idea. That was really how coins first came to be used in Egypt. You will not believe this, I daresay, but really, if you believe the rest of the story, I don’t see why you shouldn’t believe this as well.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “These gardens are green, because green is the color that most pleases and soothes men’s eyes; and however you may shut people up between bars of yellow and mud color, and however hard you may make them work, and however little wage you may pay them for working, there will always be found among those people some men who are willing to work a little longer, and for no wages at all, so that they may have green things growing near them.”

38. “These gardens are green, because green is the color that most pleases and soothes men’s eyes; and however you may shut people up between bars of yellow and mud color, and however hard you may make them work, and however little wage you may pay them for working, there will always be found among those people some men who are willing to work a little longer, and for no wages at all, so that they may have green things growing near them.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “Pastries”! We shall have people talking of “grouses” next, and “deers” and “snipes”.”

39. “Pastries”! We shall have people talking of “grouses” next, and “deers” and “snipes”.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “But I acquired the habit of laying my egg and burning myself every five hundred years–and you know how difficult it is to break yourself of a habit.”

40. “But I acquired the habit of laying my egg and burning myself every five hundred years–and you know how difficult it is to break yourself of a habit.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “For London is like prison for children, especially if their relations are not rich.”

41. “For London is like prison for children, especially if their relations are not rich.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “Everything was pleasant that day somehow. There are days like that, you know, when everything goes well from the very beginning; all the things you want are in their places, nobody misunderstands you, and all that you do turns out admirably.”

42. “Everything was pleasant that day somehow. There are days like that, you know, when everything goes well from the very beginning; all the things you want are in their places, nobody misunderstands you, and all that you do turns out admirably.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “For really there is nothing like wings for getting you into trouble. But, on the other hand, if you are in trouble, there is nothing like wings for getting you out of it.”

43. “For really there is nothing like wings for getting you into trouble. But, on the other hand, if you are in trouble, there is nothing like wings for getting you out of it.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “Grown-up people find it very difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof.”

44. “Grown-up people find it very difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call proof.”

E. Nesbit Quote: “If what we have written brings happiness to any sad heart we shall not have laboured in vain. But we want the money too.”

45. “If what we have written brings happiness to any sad heart we shall not have laboured in vain. But we want the money too.”

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