Quotes from Louisa May Alcott

Because, what? You won't tell? Never! Well, I have a bad trick

Highty-tighty! Is this the way you take my advice, Miss? You'll be sorry for it by-and-by, when you've tried love in a cottage and found it a failure. It can't be a worse one than some people find in big houses, retorted Meg.

but what mother was ever proof against the winning wiles, the ingenious evasions, or the tranquil audacity of the miniature men and women who so early show themselves accomplished Artful Dodgers?

We never are too old for this, my dear, because it is a play we are playing all the time in one way or another. Our burdens are here, our road is before us, and the longing for goodness and happiness is the guide that leads us through many troubles and mistakes to the peace which is the true Celestial City.

El cariño en las miradas, en las palabras y en las obras, es la mejor cortesía, y a ella se llega tratando a los demás como nosotros quisiéramos ser tratados

and the less you will depend on human power and wisdom. His love and care never tire or change, can never be taken from you, but may become the source of lifelong peace, happiness, and strength. Believe this heartily, and go to God with all your little cares, and hopes

Aprende a reconocer y valorar los elogios que mereces y busca la admiración de personas que valgan la pena siendo modesta además de bonita.

That I was in love? Well, I am, but not with her.

Why in the world should you spend your money, worry your family, and turn the house upside down for a parcel of girls who don't care a sixpence for you? I

She is fond of books and it has turned her brain.

Remember sarcasm is forbidden and sincerity the order of the day. You are country folks now, and it will do you good to try their simple, honest ways for a few days.

Don't try to make me grow up before my time.

How well we pull together, don't we? said Amy, who objected to silence just then. So well that I wish we might always pull in the same boat. Will you, Amy? very tenderly. Yes, Laurie, very low.

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.

money cannot buy refinement of nature, that rank does not always confer nobility, and that true breeding makes itself felt in spite of external drawbacks. "I

Don' mean to have any. It's fun to watch other people philander, but I should feel like a fool doing it myself, Said Jo, looking alarmed at the thought.

mother's Diana-like

talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

Melhor ser uma solteirona feliz do que uma esposa infeliz ou uma moça de comportamento impróprio, correndo atrás de marido.

A crash, a cry, and a laugh from Laurie, accompanied by the indecorous exclamation, Jupiter Ammon! Jo's upset the cake again! caused a momentary flurry, which was hardly over when a flock of cousins arrived, and 'the party came in', as Beth used to say when a child.

Truly love does work miracles. How very, very happy they must be! and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the workaday world again.

I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship