Famous E Nesbit Quotes
How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again!– E Nesbit
How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again?– E Nesbit
Perhaps there’s given up being magic because people didn’t believe in it any more.– E Nesbit
This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they are wrong sometimes.– E Nesbit
Gerald’s look assured her that he and the others would be as near angels as children could be without ceasing to be human.– E Nesbit
It wouldn’t do to go mixing up the present and the past, and cutting bits out of one to fit into the other.– E Nesbit
There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done– E Nesbit
It’s an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done.– E Nesbit