Quotes by : Elizabeth von Arnim

Such a little difference in Susie's ways and ideas would make them all so happy; such a little change....

Nobody told me about him [my grandfather], and he died when I was six, and yet within the last year or....

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the....

The years lay spread out before her, spacious untouched canvases on which she was presently going to....

Love is not a thing you can pick up and throw into the gutter and pick up again as the fancy takes you.....

The only thing to do with one's old sorrows is to tuck them up neatly in their shroud and turn one's....

Reading was very important the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

Oh how warm it makes one to know that there is one person in the world to whom one is everything. A lover....

What a blessing it is to love books.

...the place I was bound for on my latest pilgrimage was filled with living, first-hand memories of all....