Famous E Nesbit Quotes

  • It’s not respectable,’ she said. And when people say that, it’s no useanyone’s saying anything. – E Nesbit

    It’s not respectable,’ she said. And when people say that, it’s no useanyone’s saying anything.– E Nesbit

  • 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

  • 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

    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

    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

    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

  • Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know. – E Nesbit

    Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.– 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

    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

    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

    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