Top 250 Frances Hodgson Burnett Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “The afternoon was dragging towards its mellow hour. The sun was deepening the gold of its lances, the bees were going home and the birds were flying past less often.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

152. “There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

153. “At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for someone.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

154. “So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

155. “She could not be made rude and malicious by the rudeness and malice of those about her.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

156. “Her affection for everything she could love increased.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

157. “She had never been taught to ask permission to do things, and she knew nothing at all about authority, so she would not have thought it necessary to ask Mrs. Medlock if she might walk about the house, even if she had seen her.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

158. “She felt as if she had lived a long, long time.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

159. “In the last century more amazing things were found out than in any century before. In this new century hundreds of things still more astounding will be brought to light.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

160. “People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

162. “When a man is very good and knows a great deal, he is elected president.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

163. “Non, monsieur. Je n’ai pas le canif de mon oncle.‘” That.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

164. “She was so happy that she scarcely dared to breathe.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

165. “It was a vague belief that she herself was not quite real – or that she did not belong to the life she had been born into.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

166. “No one will remember you.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

167. “In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

168. “If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.”- Page. 164.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

169. “I’ve stolen a garden. It isn’t mine, it isn’t anybody’s. Nobody wants it, nobody cares for it, nobody ever goes into it. Perhaps everything is dead in it already, I don’t know. I don’t care, I don’t care. Nobody has any right to take it from me when I care about it and they don’t. They’re letting it die, all shut in by itsellf!”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

170. “Comme elle est drole!”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

171. “She never remembered seeing familiarly anything but the dark faces of her Ayah and the other native servants, and as they always obeyed her and gave her her own way in everything, because the Mem Sahib would be angry if she was disturbed by her crying, by the time she was six years old she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

172. “Perhaps it is the key to the garden!”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

173. “I wouldn’t want to make it look like a gardener’s garden, all clipped an’ spick an’ span, would you?” he said. “It’s nicer like this with things runnin’ wild, an’ swingin’ an’ catchin’ hold of each other.” “Don’t let us make it tidy,” said Mary anxiously. “It wouldn’t seem like a secret garden if it was tidy.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

174. “She went from place to place, and dug and weeded, and enjoyed herself so immensely that she was led on from bed to bed and into the grass under the trees. The exercise made her so warm that she first threw her coat off, and then her hat, and without knowing it she was smiling down on to the grass and the pale green points all the time.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

175. “And it was then he spoke about the broken Link – and about the greatest books in the world – that in all their different ways, they were only saying over and over again one thing thousands of times. Just this thing – ‘Hate not, Fear not, Love.’ And he said that was Order. And when it was disturbed, suffering came – poverty and misery and catastrophe and wars.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

176. “It was really a very simple thing, after all, – it was only that he had lived near a kind and gentle heart, and had been taught to think kind thoughts always and to care for others. It is a very little thing, perhaps, but it is the best thing of all. He knew nothing of earls and castles; he was quite ignorant of all grand and splendid things; but he was always lovable because he was simple and loving. To be so is like being born a king.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

177. “I’ve seen the spring now and I’m going to see the summer. I’m going to see everything grow here. I’m going to grow here myself.” “That.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

178. “Everything as strange and silent, and she seemed to be hundreds of miles away from anyone, but somehow she did not feel lonely at all.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

179. “Mrs. Medlock, knowing Ben had come from the gardens, hoped that he might have caught sight of his master and even by chance of his meeting with Master Colin. “Did you see either of them, Weatherstaff?” she asked.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

180. “One frightfully hot morning, when she was about nine years old, she awakened feeling very cross, and she became crosser still when she saw that the servant who stood by her bedside was not her Ayah. “Why did you.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

181. “To hear this pretty childish voice speaking his own language so simply and charmingly made him feel almost as if he were in his native land – which on dark, foggy days in London sometimes seemed worlds away.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

182. “You thought I was a native! You dared! You don’t know anything about natives! They are not people – they’re servants who must salaam to you. You know nothing about India. You know nothing about anything!”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

183. “You don’t know that you are saying these things to a princess, and that if I chose I could wave my hand and order you to execution. I only spare you because I am a princess, and you are a poor, stupid, old, vulgar thing, and don’t know any better.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

184. “To see each of his ugly, selfish motives changed into a good and generous one by the simplicity of a child was a singular experience.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

185. “Praise God from whom all blessings flow, Praise Him all creatures here below, Praise Him above ye Heavenly Host, Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

186. “There was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

187. “Now you are a great deal fatter and better looking.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

188. “Everything’s a story. You are a story – I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

189. “And they began to laugh over nothings as children will when they are happy together.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

190. “The obsession which is called Love is an emotion past all explanation. The persons susceptible to its power are as things beneath a spell. They see, hear, and feel that of which the rest of their world is unaware, and will remain unaware for ever.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

191. “Lo considero un amigo, a veces sucede que se puede estimar a una persona aunque nunca se haya hablado con ella. Se las observa y se piensa en ellas, y se comparten sus preocupaciones.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

192. “You stop! I hate you! Everybody hates you! I wish everybody would run out of the house and let you scream yourself to death! You will scream yourself to death in a minute, and I wish you would!”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

193. “Somehow the sight of the dear little sixpence was good for both of them. It made them laugh a little, though they both had tears in their eyes.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

194. “So she began to feel a slight interest in Dickon, and as she had never before been interested in any one but herself, it was the dawning of a healthy sentiment. When.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

195. “And they put their arms round each other and kissed as if they would never let each other go.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

196. “I am my own law–and the law of some others.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

197. “People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

198. “It really was a very strange feeling she had about Emily. It arose from her being so desolate. She did not like to own to herself that her only friend, her only companion, could feel and hear nothing. She wanted to believe, or to pretend to believe, that Emily understood and sympathized with her, that she heard her even though she did not speak in answer.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

199. “Dickon, and Dickon brought his tame animals, and, if you’ll credit it, sir, out of doors he.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

200. “She had not expected him to remember her at all and her hard little heart grew quite warm.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett