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....

It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance that knows what you know. I see so many of....

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

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

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....

I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back....

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