98+ Frances Hodgson Burnett Quotes On Friendship, Education And Death

Frances Hodgson Burnett was an English playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, such as The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy. She was also a prolific playwright, writing over 50 plays throughout her lifetime. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett on friendship, education, life.

Top 10 Frances Hodgson Burnett Quotes

1. If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
2. I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.
3. Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.
4. Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
5. As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.
6. Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.
7. Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden-in all the places.
8. Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.
9. And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
10. Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart.

Frances Hodgson Burnett Short Quotes

• All women are princesses , it is our right.
• The air was full of spices... A Little Princess
• I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.
• ... justice is mercy's highest self.
• Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.
• death is always sudden however long one waits.
• Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.
• To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman
• Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.
• There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.

Frances Hodgson Burnett Quotes About Love

Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Her affection for everything she could love increased. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett Quotes About Magic

Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm well — Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett Quotes About Garden

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

She did not know that this was the best thing she could have done, and she did not know that, when she began to walk quickly or even run along the paths and down the avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself stronger by fighting with the wind which swept down from the moor. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett Famous Quotes And Sayings

If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. 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

Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. 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. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to you, how can you help but be good-tempered? Perhaps I'm a HIDEOUS child, and no one will ever know, just because I never have any trials. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in--that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Perhaps you can feel if you can’t hear,” was her fancy. “Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don’t know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long and softly and warm; when one has gone to sleep in the midst of a fairy story, and has wakened to find it real, one cannot be unhappy or even look as if one were; and one could not, if one tried, keep a glow of joy out of one's eyes. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor — Frances Hodgson Burnett

And they both began to laugh over nothing as children will when they are happy together. And they laughed so that in the end they were making as much noise as if they had been two ordinary healthy natural ten-year-old creatures—instead of a hard, little, unloving girl and a sickly boy who believed that he was going to die. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Imagine, if you can, what the rest of the evening was like. How they crouched by the fire which blazed and leaped and made much of itself in the little grate. How they removed the covers of the dishes, and found rich, hot savory soup, which was a meal in itself, and sandwiches and toast and muffins enough for both of them. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow? — Frances Hodgson Burnett

If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Oh,Sara. It is like a story." "It is a story...everything is a story. You are a story-I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick) — Frances Hodgson Burnett

People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Things happen to people by accident. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

Whatever comes cannot alter one thing. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Never thee stop believin' in th' Big Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it - and call it what tha' likes. Tha' wert singin' to it when I come into t' garden. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair. "No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

When a man looks at the stars, he grows calm and forgets small things. They answer his questions and show him that his earth is only one of the million worlds. Hold your soul still and look upward often, and you will understand their speech. Never forget the stars. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

You either build up or you tear down. You either keep in the light where you can see, or you stand in the dark and fight everything that comes near you, because you can't see and you think it's an enemy. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

...and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay parties. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth? — Frances Hodgson Burnett

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others. He throws away time in which he might have gained the end he desires. The is no time for anger in the world. - The Ancient One — Frances Hodgson Burnett

There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her little savage hand and knocked Emily off the chair, bursting into a passion of sobbing- Sara who never cried. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

when the day comes that I kneel by your bedside and see your eyes close, or you kneel by mine, it must be that the one who waits behind shall know the parting is not all. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

You see, now that trials have come, they have shown that I am NOT a nice child. I was afraid they would. Perhaps... that is what they were sent for... I suppose there MIGHT be good in things, even if we don't see it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary — Frances Hodgson Burnett

There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

People never like me and I never like people — Frances Hodgson Burnett

we do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if 'tis not granted to us, and then we kneel and kneel and believe, because we must have someone to ask help from. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

"It's so beautiful!" she said, a little breathless with her speed. "You never saw anything so beautiful! It has come! I thought it had come that other morning, but it was only coming. It is here now! It has come, the Spring!" — Frances Hodgson Burnett

If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about the country with her sword drawn, rescuing and defending everyone in distress. She always wants to fight when she sees people in trouble. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Life Lessons by Frances Hodgson Burnett

1. Frances Hodgson Burnett's work emphasizes the power of friendship and family, showing how these relationships can help us through difficult times.
2. Her stories also emphasize the importance of being true to yourself and having the courage to pursue your dreams.
3. Burnett's work also teaches us the importance of resilience and never giving up, no matter how hard things may seem.