Louisa May Alcott Quotes - Page 6

I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

Some stories are so familiar its like going home.

We're twins, and so we love each other more than other people.

I could have been a great many things.

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

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

I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I never feel wither shame, remorse or fear, I sometimes wish it was not necessary as I don't like the trouble, but as for any moral sense of principle, I haven't a particle. Many people are like me as actions prove, but they are not so frank in owning it and insist on keeping up the humbug of virtue.

Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.

Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe.

Be worthy love, and love will come.

Sympathy is a sweet thing.

The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.

Love is a beautifier.

I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on to the next, each growing richer, happier and higher, carrying with it only the real memories of what has gone before.

Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.

…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.

...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.

Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.