Little Women / Little Men / Jo's Boys Quotes

“ella misma fuera muchacho. Si los Laurence hubieran sido lo que Jo llamaba “tiesos y almidonados”, no se hubiera entendido con ellos, porque la gente así siempre la coartaba e irritaba; pero viéndolos tan francos y naturales, ella lo estaba también y les produjo buena impresión. Cuando se levantaron quiso despedirse, pero Laurie dijo que tenía algo más que mostrarle, y la condujo al invernadero que estaba iluminado en su honor. Era como un lugar encantado, con las paredes cubiertas de flores de cada lado, la dulce luz, el aire húmedo y tibio y las vides y plantas exóticas. Su nuevo amigo cortó las flores más bellas, y las ató en un ramo, diciendo, con mirada alegre: -Hágame el favor de dárselas a su señora madre, y dígale que me gusta mucho la medicina que me envió. Encontraron al señor Laurence de pie delante del fuego en el salón. La atención de Jo quedó completamente cautivada por un hermoso piano de cola, abierto. -¿Toca usted el piano? –preguntó Jo volviéndose a Laurie con expresión llena de respeto. -Algunas veces –respondió. -Hágame el favor de tocar el piano ahora; deseo oírlo para contárselo a Beth. -¿No querrá usted tocar primero?”
― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas / Buenas esposas / Hombrecitos / Los muchachos de Joe

“Jo immediately sat up, put her hands in her pockets, and began to whistle. “Don’t, Jo. It’s so boyish!” “That’s why I do it.”
― Louisa May Alcott, The Complete Little Women: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys

“She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty; and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be,”
― Louisa May Alcott, Louisa May Alcott Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, ... The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…

“que no conmovieran, especialmente entre las enviadas a casa de los padres. En esta carta se decía poco de las molestias sufridas, de los peligros afrontados o de la nostalgia a la cual había que sobreponerse; era una carta alegre, llena de descripciones de la vida del soldado, de las marchas y de noticias militares; y sólo hacia el final el autor de la carta dejó brotar el amor paternal de su corazón y su deseo de ver a las niñas que había dejado en casa. "Mi cariño y un beso a cada una. Diles que pienso en ellas durante el día, y por la noche oro por ellas, y siempre encuentro en su cariño el mejor consuelo. Un año de espera para verlas parece interminable, pero recuérdales que, mientras esperamos, podemos todos trabajar, de manera que estos días tan duros no se desperdicien. Sé que ellas recordarán todo lo que les dije, que serán niñas cariñosas para ti, que cuando vuelva podré enorgullecerme de mis mujercitas más que nunca.” Todas se conmovían algo al llegar a esta parte, Jo no se avergonzó de la gruesa lágrima que caía sobre el papel blanco, y Amy no se preocupó de que iba a desarreglar sus bucles al esconder la cara en el seno de su madre y dijo sollozando: -¡Soy egoísta! Pero trataré de ser mejor para que no se lleve un chasco conmigo. - ¡Trataremos todas! -exclamó Meg -. Pienso demasiado en mi apariencia y detesto trabajar, pero no lo haré más si puedo remediarlo. -Trataré de ser lo que le gusta a él llamarme "una mujercita", y no ser brusca y atolondrada; cumpliré aquí con mi deber en vez de desear estar en otra parte -dijo Jo, pensando que dominarse a sí misma era obra más difícil que hacer frente a unos rebeldes. Beth no dijo nada, pero secó sus lágrimas con el calcetín del ejército y se puso a trabajar con todas sus fuerzas, no perdiendo tiempo en hacer lo que tenía más cerca de ella, mientras decidía en su corazón ser como su padre lo deseaba cuando al cabo de un”
― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas / Buenas esposas / Hombrecitos / Los muchachos de Joe

“which was not exactly comfortable, but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women: The Complete Series

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Louisa Alcott Collection: 39 Works

“To be loved and chosen by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman, and I sincerely hope my girls may know this beautiful experience.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Louisa Alcott Collection: 39 Works

“Although the oldest, Jo had the least self-control,”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women: Complete Series

“I like good strong words that mean something," replied Jo,”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women Series

“Little they cared what anybody thought, for they were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven.”
― Louisa May Alcott, The Complete Little Women Series: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys: March sisters' coming-of-age and women's rights in 19th-century New England

“haraganear”
― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas / Buenas esposas / Hombrecitos / Los muchachos de Joe

“Jo laughed, Meg scolded, Beth implored, and Amy wailed because she couldn’t remember how much nine times twelve was.”
― Louisa May Alcott, The Complete Little Women Series: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys: March sisters' coming-of-age and women's rights in 19th-century New England

“To New York.”
― Louisa May Alcott, The Complete Little Women Series: All 4 Novels - Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys

“Sentimental? Yes. Thank Gott, we Germans believe in sentiment, and keep ourselves young mit it. Your English 'you' is so cold, say 'thou,' heart's dearest, it means so much to me," pleaded Mr. Bhaer, more like a romantic student than a grave professor.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women: Complete Series

“Jo couldn't even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings; and, failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering,”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women: Complete Series

“Katy don’t amoose me; and I must be amoosed, ‘cause I ‘m fwactious; mamma said I was!” sobbed Maud, evidently laboring under the delusion that fractiousness was some interesting malady.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott

“There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind”
― Louisa May Alcott, All the 4 Little Women Books: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys

“She did not answer, for truth she could not, and falsehood she would not, give him.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott

“I would begin at the beginning, and teach young people that marriage is not the only aim and end of life, yet would fit them for it, as for a sacrament too high and holy to be profaned by a light word or thought. Show them how to be worthy of it and how to wait for it. Give them a law of life both cheerful and sustaining; a law that shall keep them hopeful if single, sure that here or hereafter they will find that other self and be accepted by it; happy if wedded, for their own integrity of heart will teach them to know the true god when he comes, and keep them loyal to the last.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott

“She”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women: Complete Series – 4 Novels in One Edition: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men and Jo's Boys

“husband in your love for your children. A very natural and forgivable mistake, Meg, but one that had better be remedied before you take to different ways,”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women: Complete Series – 4 Novels in One Edition: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men and Jo's Boys

“can’t get over my disappointment in not being a boy.”
― Louisa May Alcott, The Complete Little Women: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys

“Los hombres sólo gruñen cuando tienen hambre”
― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas / Buenas esposas / Hombrecitos / Los muchachos de Joe

“Many men can be what the world calls great: very few men are what God calls good. This is the harder task to choose, yet the only success that satisfies, the only honor that outlives death.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Louisa May Alcott Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, ... The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…

“You are a hero-worshipper, my dear; and if people don't come up to the mark you are so disappointed that you fail to see the fine reality which remains when the pretty romance ends.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Louisa May Alcott Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, ... The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…

“began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, ‘truth, reverence, and good will,”
― Louisa May Alcott, The Essential Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Little Men, and Jo’s Boys

“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: Complete Series – 4 Novels in One Edition: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men and Jo's Boys

“I don’t envy her much, in spite of her money, for after all rich people have about as many worries as poor ones, I think,”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women: Complete Series – 4 Novels in One Edition: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men and Jo's Boys

“You look like Balzac’s ‘Femme Peinte Par Elle — Meme’,” he said, as he fanned her with one hand and held her coffee cup in the other.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women: Complete Series – 4 Novels in One Edition: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men and Jo's Boys

“A todos ellos gustaba Jo muchísimo, pero ninguno se enamoró de ella, mientras que fueron pocos los que pudieron escaparse de pagar el tributo de un suspiro sentimental ante el altar de Amy.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas / Buenas esposas / Hombrecitos / Los muchachos de Joe