Louisa May Alcott - People Quotes

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People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

Louisa May Alcott
I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.

Louisa May Alcott
My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

Louisa May Alcott
Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called love, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and autumn, when winter gayety and summer idleness produce whole bouquets of engagements, and set young people to pairing off like the birds.

Louisa May Alcott
Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.

Louisa May Alcott
Fatherly and motherly hearts often beat warm and wise in the breasts of bachelor uncles and maiden aunts; and it is my private opinion that these worthy creatures are a beautiful provision of nature for the cherishing of other people's children.

Louisa May Alcott
Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

Louisa May Alcott
And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.

Louisa May Alcott
That's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.

Louisa May Alcott
I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I never feel wither shame, remorse or fear, I sometimes wish it was not necessary as I don't like the trouble, but as for any moral sense of principle, I haven't a particle. Many people are like me as actions prove, but they are not so frank in owning it and insist on keeping up the humbug of virtue. You'll find that is true, Rose, when you know the world better.

Louisa May Alcott
The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

Louisa May Alcott
Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.

Louisa May Alcott
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Louisa May Alcott
We're twins, and so we love each other more than other people…

Louisa May Alcott
The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.

Louisa May Alcott
It was not a fashionable place, but even among the pleasant people there, the girls made few friends, preferring to live for one another.

Louisa May Alcott
I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

Louisa May Alcott
What splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

Louisa May Alcott
If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

Louisa May Alcott
Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…

Louisa May Alcott
Swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

Louisa May Alcott
People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.

Louisa May Alcott