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Enid Blyton Quotes - Page 2

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.

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
Taken, People, May
Enid Blyton (1995). “The Ring O' Bells Mystery”

They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by. They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered.

Enid Blyton
Beautiful, Song, Night
Enid Blyton (2016). “The Secret Island”, p.27, Hachette UK

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
Kindness, Punishment, Wish

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
Night, House, Lovely
"Mr. Galliano's Circus". Book by Enid Blyton, www.theguardian.com. 1938.

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
Men, Acting, Ordinary

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