Louisa May Alcott Quotes

…I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not, ' laughed Mrs. Jo…

It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!

...it seemed marriage by its very design was meant to seek out love and destroy it.

I wish I had no heart, it aches so…

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

…no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people.

I like good strong words that mean something…

…nothing remained but loneliness and grief…

Kindness in looks and words and ways is true politeness, and any one can have it if they only try to treat other people as they like to be treated themselves.

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…

Send me all the advice you like. I'll use as much as I can.

…possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.

…for action is always easier than quiet waiting.

It’s highly virtuous to say we’ll be good, but wecan’t do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strongpull, and a pull all together before some of us even get ourfeet set in the right way.

Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again.

Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.

Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.

leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best.

What shall you do all your vacation?’, asked Amy. "I shall lie abed and do nothing", replied Meg.

Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty...

Don't try to make me grow up before my time…

I wish wearing flat-irons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats, - more's the pity!

...the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn't like it.

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

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…

Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongueswhen they have girls to manage

There are things that mothers can manage best when they do their duty.

That was all I wanted!" whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct.

Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, "Darling, love me!" I wanted to shake her, ' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy.

It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants

As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you could not have wept over their trials and laughed over their pleasures.

It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but we can't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together before some of us even get our feet set in the right way

The more one gets the more one wants

Trifles show character

You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That's not my way.

…a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck.

Who are your heroes?" asked Jo."Grandfather and Napoleon.

And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace…

Many can argue not many converse.

Life is my college. May I graduate well and earn some honors!

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

Debate is masculine conversation is feminine.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country

I want to be great or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber so I don't intend to try any more.

Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I many not reach them but I can look up and see the beauty believe in them and try to follow where they lead.

Love is the only thing we can carry with us when we go and it makes the end so easy.

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go and it makes the end so easy.

I resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake the living out of her.

I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality.