Top 40 Enid Blyton Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.”

— Enid Blyton

2. “You’re trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.”

— Enid Blyton

3. “I’m good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.”

— Enid Blyton

4. “I believe anyone could light a cigarette from the sparks that fly from your eyes!”

— Enid Blyton

5. “Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.”

— Enid Blyton

6. “When you’re paid to do a job, it’s better to give a few minutes more to it, than a few minutes less. That’s one of the differences between doing a job honestly and doing it dishonestly! See?”

— Enid Blyton

7. “You may be a failure at the moment – but you’re a very fine failure, Darrell! You’re a lot better than some people who think they’re a success.”

— Enid Blyton

8. “You think if someone does a brave deed quite suddenly, then he or she could never do a mean one? You are wrong. We all have good and bad in us, and we have to strive all the time to make the good cancel out the bad. We can never be perfect – we all of us do mean or wrong things at times – but we can at least make amends by trying to cancel out the wrong by doing something worthy later on.”

— Enid Blyton

9. “There’s a rainbow around every corner is a well known saying and is supposed to make negative people positive.”

— Enid Blyton

10. “Hatred is so much easier to win than love – and so much harder to get rid of.”

— Enid Blyton

11. “Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!’ said Jimmy longingly. ‘How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!”

— Enid Blyton

12. “A clown needn’t be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he’s in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they’re just being ordinary men, they’ve got quite sad faces.”

— Enid Blyton

13. “The point is not that I don’t recognise bad people when I see them – I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them – the point is that I know a good person when I see one.”

— Enid Blyton

14. “Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness – that is a very terrible thing.”

— Enid Blyton

15. “It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.”

— Enid Blyton

16. “Adventures always come to the adventurous, there’s no doubt about that!”

— Enid Blyton

17. “Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!”

— Enid Blyton

18. “The train whistled, and chuffed out of the station. The children pressed their noses to the window and watched the dirty houses and the tall chimneys race by. How they hated the town! How lovely it would be to be in the clean country, with flowers growing everywhere, and birds singing in the hedges! Pg 5.”

— Enid Blyton

19. “I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.”

— Enid Blyton

20. “We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.”

— Enid Blyton

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21. “Well you needn’t have any ‘feelings’ about mountains,” said Philip. “Mountains are all the same – just tops, middles and bottoms, sometimes with sheep on and sometimes without.”

— Enid Blyton

22. “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!”

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23. “If you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.”

— Enid Blyton

24. “I think people make their own faces, as they grow.”

— Enid Blyton

25. “I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It’s their children I love.”

— Enid Blyton

26. “THE NEXT day another Secret Seven meeting was held, but this time it was at Colin’s, in his little summer-house. It wasn’t such a good place as Peter’s shed, because it had an open doorway with no door, and they were not allowed to have an oil-stove in it. However, Colin’s mother had asked all the Secret Seven to tea, so it was clear they would have to have their next meeting at his house, and the little summer-house was the only place where they could talk in secret.”

— Enid Blyton

27. “Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers. Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people’s minds and know when anything unusual was going on.”

— Enid Blyton

28. “I just want a sunny, lazy, windy time with the people I like best.”

— Enid Blyton

29. “I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it’s a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!”

— Enid Blyton

30. “Watzisname, where are Silky and Moon-Face?”

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31. “I never have bruises like that. I suppose it’s being fat that makes them spread so. Won’t you look lovely when you go yellow-green?” “That’s one thing about me,” said Fatty, “I’m a wonderful bruiser. Once, when I ran into the goal-post at football, I got a bruise just here that was exactly the shape of a church-bell. It was most peculiar.”

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32. “It is. It’s got the most gorgeous view over the sea, too,’ said Alicia. ‘It’s built on the cliff, you know. It’s lucky you’re in North Tower – that’s got the best view of all!”

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33. “I don’t mind taking orders from them as has the right to give them,” she said, “but take orders from that ridiculous bird I will not.”

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34. “My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.”

— Enid Blyton

35. “You can’t possibly do anything if you think you can’t. But you can do impossible things sometimes if you think you can.”

— Enid Blyton

36. “Well, go back and do a bit of howling yourself,’ suggested George. ‘It may frighten the howler as much as his howling scared you.’ ‘Not a chance,’ said Julian promptly. ‘I’m not going in for any howling matches.’ He burrowed down under the rug for his binoculars and slung them round his neck. ‘I’m.”

— Enid Blyton

37. “Today it was Felicity who crept up behind, gave Jo an enormous shove, and landed her in the pool with a colossal splash! Jo came up, gasping and spluttering, furiously angry. When she had got the water out of her mouth, she turned on the laughing Felicity. ‘You beast! That’s the second time you’ve done that.”

— Enid Blyton

38. “Never take the easy way out if it means being dishonest or untruthful.”

— Enid Blyton

39. “There, there, baby!’ said Julian, patting his little sister on the back and laughing at her furious face.”

— Enid Blyton

40. “I don’t feel at all brave,’ thought Jack, ’but I suppose a person is really bravest when he does something although he is frightened. So here goes!”

— Enid Blyton

41. “I do not count as our successes those who have won scholarships and passed exams, though these are good things to do. I count as our successes those who learn to be good-hearted and kind, sensible and trustable, good, sound women the world can lean on. Our failures are those who do not learn these things in the years they are here.”

— Enid Blyton

42. “THE FOUR children slept like logs all night long.”

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43. “Pop goes the weasel,’ said Kiki, and nibbled at Jack’s ear.”

— Enid Blyton

44. “Our failures are those who do not learn these things in the years they are here.”

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45. “You look awfully pale.”

— Enid Blyton