Quotes by : E. Nesbit

There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel....

Perhaps there's given up being magic because people didn't believe in it any more.

It's not respectable,' she said. And when people say that, it's no useanyone's saying anything.

Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the....

I don't agree with you in the least," said Temple— "about marriage, I mean. A man ought to want to....

This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they....

There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven....

Boys and girls are only little men and women. And WE are much harder and hardier than they are--" (Peter....

What a night it was! The jagged masses of heavy dark cloud were rolling at intervals from horizon to....

Grown-up people find it difficult to believe really wonderful things, unless they have what they call....