Małe kobietki Quotes

“If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“My dear, don't let the sun go down upon your anger - forgive each other, help each other and begin again tomorrow.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“You laugh at me when I say I want to be a lady, but I mean a true gentlewoman in mind and manners, and I try to do it as far as I know how. I can't explain exactly, but I want to be above the little meannesses and follies and faults that spoil so many women”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women / Stage 3

“hither,hither, from thy home,airy sprite, i bid thee come! born of roses, fed on dew, charms and potions canst thow brew? bring me here, with elfin speed,the fragment philter witch i need; make it sweet and swift and stong, spirite amserw now my song

hither i come, from my airy home, afar silver moon. take magic spell, and use it well. or its powers will vanish soon!”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Don’t you feel that it is pleasanter to help one another, to have daily duties with make leisure sweet when it comes, and to bear and for bear, that home may be comfortable and lovely to us all?”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Better be happy old maids than unhappy wives, or unmaidenly girls, running about to find husbands. ~ Mr.s March”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women / Stage 3

“Laurie liked her better for it, and found himself both admiring and respecting the brave patience that made the most of opportunity, and the cheerful spirit that covered poverty with flowers.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women / Stage 3

“only it's easier for me to risk my life for a person than to be pleasant to him when I don't feel like it.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women / Stage 3

“El deseo verdadero de cambiar supone tener media batalla ganada.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas

“Queridas niñas, tengo planes ambiciosos para vosotras, pero no tienen que ver con que lleguéis a tener un puesto importante u os caséis con un hombre rico por el mero hecho de serlo o porque tenga una casa estupenda, sobre todo si en esa casa falta el amor y no es un verdadero hogar. El dinero es un bien necesario y valioso y, si se hace buen uso de él, se convierte en algo noble, pero no quiero que creáis que es lo más importante o aquello a lo que debéis aspirar. Prefiero veros convertidas en esposas de hombres pobres pero felices, amadas y satisfechas, a que seáis reinas en su trono, carentes de respeto y paz.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas

“The dim, dusty room, with the busts staring down from the tall bookcases, the cosy chairs, the globes and, best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wader where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Creo que para el sábado en la noche habrán descubierto que todo juego y nada de trabajo es tan malo como todo trabajo y nada de juego.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas

“Laurie thought the task of forgetting his love for Jo would absorb all his powers for years; but, to his surprise, he discovered it grew easier every day. He refused to believe it at first,--got angry with himself, and couldn't understand it; but these hearts of ours are curious and contrary things, and time and nature work their will in spite of us. Laurie's heart wouldn't ache; the wound persisted in healing with a rapidity that astonished him, and, instead of trying to forget, he found himself trying to remember.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Her monstrosities in the way of cattle would have taken prizes at an agricultural fair, and the perilous pitching of her vessels would have produced seasickness in the most nautical observer, if the utter disregard to all known rules of shipbuilding and rigging had not convulsed him with laughter at the first glance.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“You'll get over this after a while, and find some lovely accomplished girl, who will adore you, and make a fine mistress for your fine house. I shouldn't. I'm homely and awkward and odd and old, and you'd be ashamed of me, and we should quarrel—we can't help it even now, you see—and I shouldn't like elegant society and you would, and you'd hate my scribbling, and I couldn't get on without it, and we should be unhappy, and wish we hadn't done it, and everything would be horrid!”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women / Stage 3

“That looks feasible. What do you want for lunch? Cake, sandwiches, fruit, and coffee will be all that is necessary, I suppose?"
"Oh, dear, no! We must have cold tongue and chicken, French chocolate and ice cream, besides. The girls are used to such things, and I want my lunch to be proper and elegant, though I do work for my living.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“She doesn't look like my Beth, and there's nobody to help us bear it. Mother and father both gone, and God seems so far away I can't find Him.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women / Stage 3

“Antes de morir espero hacer algo importante, algo heroico o maravilloso, que me permita seguir viva en el recuerdo. No sé qué es, pero no pararé hasta descubrirlo y, algún día, os asombraré a todas.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas

“Hija mía, tus problemas y tentaciones no han hecho más que empezar y pueden ser muchos, pero lograrás superarlos y vencerlos si aprendes a sentir la fuerza y el amor de tu Padre Celestial como sientes los de tu padre terrenal. Cuanto más le ames y confíes en Él, más unida te sentirás a Él y menos dependerás del poder y la sabiduría humanos. Él nunca se cansa de amarnos y cuidarnos, nada le aleja de nosotros y nos proporciona la paz, la felicidad y la fuerza que necesitamos en nuestra vida. Has de creer en esto y confiar a Dios todas tus cuitas y esperanzas, tus errores y penas, del mismo modo que los compartes con tu madre.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas

“La vanidad echa a perder las mejores cualidades. El talento y la bondad nunca pasan inadvertidos y, aunque así fuera, la conciencia de tenerlos y hacer buen uso de ellos debería bastar. Las virtudes quedan ensalzadas por la molestia.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Mujercitas

“There is not much danger than real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“and Christmas roses”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“and has decided to try and mould her character as carefully as she moulds her little clay figures.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Wouldn’t it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true, and we could live in them?”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“A LAMENT. FOR S. B. PAT PAW.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“It is our painful duty to record the sudden and mysterious disappearance of our cherished friend, Mrs Snowball Pat Paw.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Mother is always ready to be your confidant, Father to be your friend, and both of us hope and trust that our daughters, whether married or single, will be the pride and comfort of our lives”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women / Stage 3

“She had often said she wanted to do something splendid, no matter how hard; and now she had her wish,--for what could be more beautiful than to devote her life to father and mother, trying to make home as happy to them as they had to her?”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women / Stage 3

“I know I'll get my music some time, if I'm good.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Privațiunile fac ca plăcerile să fie și mai dulci.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Micuțele doamne