The Story of the Treasure Seekers Quotes

“People think six is a great many, when it's children. ...they don't mind six pairs of boots, or six pounds of apples, or six oranges, especially in equations, but they seem to think that you ought not to have five brothers and sisters.”
― E. Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers

“This is why I shall not tell you in this story about all the days when nothing happened. You will not catch me saying, 'thus the sad days passed slowly by'--or 'the years rolled on their weary course'--or 'time went on'--because it is silly; of course time goes on--whether you say so or not. So I shall just tell you the nice, interesting parts--and in between you will understand that we had our meals and got up and went to bed, and dull things like that.”
― E. Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers

“...Albert-next-door doesn't care for reading, and he has not read nearly so many books as we have, so he is very foolish and ignorant, but it cannot be helped... Besides, it is wrong to be angry with people for not being so clever as you are yourself.”
― Edith Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers

“I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.”
― E. Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers

“Being editors is not the best way to wealth. We all feel this now, and highwaymen are not respected any more like they used to be.”
― E. Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers

“Albert's uncle says I ought to have put this in the preface, but I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.”
― E. Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers

“If what we have written brings happiness to any sad heart we shall not have laboured in vain. But we want the money too.”
― E. Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers

“but we thought perhaps the G. B.—it is short for Generous Benefactor—would not like it if there were so many of us. I have often noticed that it is the worst of our being six—people think six a great many, when it’s children. That sentence looks wrong somehow. I mean they don’t mind six pairs of boots, or six pounds of apples, or six oranges, especially in equations, but they seem to think you ought not to have five brothers and sisters.”
― Edith Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers

“Albert, you are more highly privileged than ever I was. No one ever made me a nice dungeon when I was your age. I think I had better leave you where you are.”
― E. Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers

“Quarrelling is an evil thing,
It fills with gall life's cup;
For when once you begin
It takes such a long time to make it up.”
― E. Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers

“And Dora is right sometimes, though she is our elder sister.”
― Edith Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers

“I have often thought that if the people who write books for children knew a little more it would be better. I shall not tell you anything about us except what I should like to know about if I was reading the story and you were writing it. Albert's uncle says I ought to have put this in the preface, but I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.”
― E. Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers

“Besides, it is wrong to be angry with people for not being so clever as you are yourself. It is not always their faults.”
― E. Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers