L S May Quotes

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that.

Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.

Love is a beautifier.

I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.

strength and beauty must go hand in hand

I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.

It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end," said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.

... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.

We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want. ~Amy March~

Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions

If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.

I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them.

Everybody has their days of misfortune.

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.

But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.

To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.

Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.

It was fortunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment,— for they would have been hoarse and faint if they had gone on much longer.

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

I wish I had no heart, it aches so.

For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls.

Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.

I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.

Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.

Head, you may think; heart, you may feel; But hand, you shall work alway!

When I had the youth I had no money, now I have the money I have no time, and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life.

Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.

I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy.

Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?" "Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world.

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully.

But, like all happiness, it did not last long.

It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister.

I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.

We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't.

Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.

…men never forgive like women.

Souls and bodies should go on together.

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

Jo began to dance a jig,...Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with uplifted hands, 'Well I do believe the world is coming to an end!

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child

I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her.