Louisa Twining Quotes

#1. never sneer at good things or pretend to be worse than you are. Don't let false shame make you neglect the religion without which no man can live. #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#2. A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman. #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#3. Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#4. The people who hire all these things done for them never know what they lose, for the homeliest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them, and Meg found so many proofs of this that everything in her small neatness from the kitchen roller to the silver vase on her parlor table was eloquent of home love and tender forethought. #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#5. A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic. #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#6. The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other. #Quote by Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

#7. You're unbelievable."
"Thank you."
"That wasn't a compliment!"
"I know you didn't mean it as one, Juliet, but when you think about it, what could be more glorious than to be too much, too out of the ordinary, to be believed? #Quote by Louisa Edwards

#8. At three o'clock in the afternoon, all the fashionable world at Nice may be seen on the Promenade des Anglais - a charming place, for the wide walk, bordered with palms, flowers, and tropical shrubs, is bounded on one side by the sea, on the other by the grand drive, lined with hotels and villas, while beyond lie orange orchards and the hills. Many nations are represented, many languages spoken, many costumes worn, and on a sunny day the spectacle is as gay and brilliant as a carnival. Haughty English, lively French, sober Germans, handsome Spaniards, ugly Russians, meek Jews, free-and-easy Americans, all drive, sit, or saunter here, chatting over the news, and criticizing the latest celebrity who has arrived - Ristori or Dickens, Victor Emmanuel or the Queen of the Sandwich Islands. #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#9. Some stories are so familiar its like going home. #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#10. The analytical nature of science gives us the ability to perceive the anatomy of the universe and every molecule in it, but it is the human imagination that gives it life. #Quote by Louisa Preston

#11. You laugh at me when I say I want to be a lady, but I mean a true gentlewoman in mind and manners, and I try to do it as far as I know how. I can't explain exactly, but I want to be above the little meannesses and follies and faults that spoil so many women #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#12. Don't you dare throw your life away for an unknown superstition. If you die
" My voice broke, and I swallowed thickly. "I love you," I whispered, fisting my hands against his stomach. "You can't leave. You swore you wouldn't."
Ash's hands came to rest over mine, twining our fingers together. "Even if the world stands against you," he murmured, bowing his head. "I promise. #Quote by Julie Kagawa

#13. it's easier for me to risk my life for a person than to be pleasant to him when I don't feel like it. It's #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#14. You said every day we make a million little choices, and we should try to make the right ones as much as we can. And you said rarely in life do the big choices present themselves, so when they do, we have to take advantage of the opportunity. We have to do the right thing. #Quote by Louisa Luna

#15. Love is a beautifier. #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#16. "I do not ask for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the world within." #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#17. Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything. #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#18. Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her. #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#19. Nd I shall think her very mean indeed if she does not give me some of her gloves, for she has many of them, I've seen them myself ... and as you can see, I took the hint ... but not much love went into THAT package did it, my dear? #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#20. Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs. #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#21. But I'm a single mother,' she'd said. 'And, worse, I don't do flirting. I wouldn't know how to flirt with someone if Louisa stood behind them holding up placards. And #Quote by Jojo Moyes

#22. take up your little burdens again, for though they seem heavy sometimes, they are good for us, and lighten as we learn to carry them. #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#23. Every repast can have soul and can be enchanting; it asks for only a small degree of mindfulness and a habit of doing things with care and imagination. -Thomas Moore #Quote by Louisa Thomsen Brits

#24. When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to express my sympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions, but he answered cheerily, 'Never mind, Louisa, see what a beautiful blaze they make! We will enjoy that now.' The lesson was one never forgotten and in the varied lessons that have come to me I have learned to look for something beautiful and bright. #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#25. To hygge is to create a harmonious atmosphere, a feeling of warmth, a mood of contentment.
Hygge is freely used to describe rooms, buildings, homes, parties, people and activities. #Quote by Louisa Thomsen Brits

#26. They were completely happy. They couldn't stop smiling at each other, beaming like fools till their cheeks ached. #Quote by Louisa Young

#27. It's bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#28. The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious to keep head contented and face happy, that she forgot her clothes, and made others do the same. She did not know it, but that good old fashion of simplicity made the plain gowns pretty, and the grace of unconsciousness beautified their little wearer with the charm that makes girlhood sweetest to those who truly love and reverence it. #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#29. Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world. #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#30. Forgiveness is a funny thing. We act like it has to be earned, as if there are a certain number of hoops someone can jump through to make us forget that they hurt us. But forgiveness can't be earned! It can only be given freely, as a gift! #Quote by Louisa Edwards

#31. Hither I come, From my airy home, Afar in the silver moon. Take the magic spell, And use it well, Or its power will vanish soon! And #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#32. There aren't too many things that make you feel better than a little kid seeing you, yelling your name and running to you. #Quote by Jean Louisa Kelly

#33. Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy. #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#34. Money is the means and the ends of my mercenary existence. #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#35. Politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#36. For he had plenty of money and nothing to do, and Satan is proverbially fond of providing employment for full and idle hands. The poor fellow had temptations enough from without and from within, but he withstood them pretty well, for much as he valued liberty, he valued good faith and confidence more, #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#37. ... and Aunt Jo retired, satisfied with the success of her last trap to catch a sunbeam. #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#38. Souls and bodies should go on together. #Quote by Louisa May Alcott

#39. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more. #Quote by Louisa May Alcott