Quotes by : Elizabeth von Arnim

...she found herself blessing God for her creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life,....

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

One should continue (of course with dignity) to develop, however old one may be. She had nothing against....

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....

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....

Isn't it a mercy that we never get cured of being expectant? It makes life so bearable. However regularly....

Always being there was the essential secret for a wife.

It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.