Quotes by : E. Nesbit

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

It wouldn't do to go mixing up the present and the past, and cutting bits out of one to fit into the....

How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again?

So he caught her in his arms and kissed her, and they were very happy, and told each other what a beautiful....

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....

I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other....

I don't understand," says Gerald, alone in his third- class carriage, "how railway trains and magic can....

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

Gerald's look assured her that he and the others would be as near angels as children could be without....