Quotes by : Sarah Orne Jewett

There's more women likes to be loved than there is of those that loves.

I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with....

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not....

A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets....

T'ain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.

The bright flower was like a face. Somehow, the beauty and life of it were surprising in the plain room,....

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless....

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.....

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should....