When Patty Went to College Quotes

“You must remember that you cannot form your character in a moment, my dear. Character is a plant of slow growth and the seeds must be planted early.”
― Jean Webster, When Patty Went to College

“She was worshiping under the blue sky, to the jubilant chanting of the birds.”
― Jean Webster, When Patty Went to College

“How in the world," Georgie demanded, "do you ever make them let you do all these things? I stuck in three innocent little thumb-tacks to-day, and Peters descended upon me bristling with wrath, and said he'd report me if I didn't pull them out."

"We never ask," explained Patty. "It's the only way.”
― Jean Webster, When Patty Went to College

“Where is the fun of living if you are going to make yourself a slave to all sorts of petty rules?" asked Patty wearily.”
― Jean Webster, When Patty Went to College

“Examinations are even entertaining, if you know the right answers.”
― Jean Webster, When Patty Went to College

“Her eyes wandered back to the campus again, and she suddenly grew sober as the thought swept over her that in a few weeks more it would be hers no longer. This happy, irresponsible community life, which had come to be the only natural way of living, was suddenly at an end.”
― Jean Webster, When Patty Went to College

“I'm getting old... Soon I'll be thirty, and then forty, and then fifty; and do you think any one will love me then if I deal in subterfuges and evasions? Character, my dear girls, is a plant of slow growth, and the seeds must be planted early.”
― Jean Webster, When Patty Went to College