quotes by Louisa May Alcott

"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
— Louisa May Alcott

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
— Louisa May Alcott

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
— Louisa May Alcott

"I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within."
— Louisa May Alcott

"A faithful friend is a strong defense;
And he that hath found him hath found a treasure."
— Louisa May Alcott

"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
— Louisa May Alcott

"If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now."
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women (The Classic Collection))

"Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors."
— Louisa May Alcott

". . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole."
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

"Far awar there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations, I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
— Louisa May Alcott

"People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world. "
— Louisa May Alcott

"That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit."
— Louisa May Alcott

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship"
— Louisa May Alcott

"Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art."
— Louisa May Alcott (A Long Fatal Love Chase)

"He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard."
— Louisa May Alcott (A Long Fatal Love Chase)

""She is too fond of books and it has addled her brain.""
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

"Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?"
"Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking
mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight."
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

"Love is a great beautifier."
— Louisa May Alcott

""I’m not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I’d do when I grew up; I never thought of being married, as you did. I couldn’t seem to imagine myself anything but stupid little Beth, trotting about at home, of no use anywhere but there. I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven." "
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

"...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again."
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)