Quotes - Meagan (meagansdiary) Showing 1-30 of 33

#1

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales

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#2

“I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: devotion, love, misattributed, pronouncements-of-love

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#3

“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

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#4

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

tags: love, mr-darcy

12443 likes

#5

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: friendship, love

23186 likes

#6

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: romantic

5614 likes

#7

“If she got really quiet and listened, new parts of her wanted to speak.”
― SARK, Succulent Wild Woman

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#8

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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#9

“You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Road to Yesterday

tags: dreams

775 likes

#10

“I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams

455 likes

#11

“I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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#12

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, words

3643 likes

#13

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: inspirational-ship-storms

3783 likes

#14

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

48253 likes

#15

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

tags: abilities

50613 likes

#16

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

101802 likes

#17

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea

27952 likes

#18

“Courage, dear heart.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

tags: aslan, narnia

2289 likes

#19

“Do not dare not to dare.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

tags: inspirational

617 likes

#20

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

tags: perspective, positive-attitude

3219 likes

#21

“Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

618 likes

#22

“People are more than just the way they look.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

tags: beauty, people

346 likes

#23

“Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

95 likes

#24

“Conventionality is not morality.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

tags: morality

537 likes

#25

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

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#26