Famous Louisa May Alcott Quotes

  • There are things that mothers can manage best when they do their duty. – Louisa May Alcott

    There are things that mothers can manage best when they do their duty.– Louisa May Alcott

  • Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongueswhen they have girls to manage – Louisa May Alcott

    Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongueswhen they have girls to manage– Louisa May Alcott

  • Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret-¦ – Louisa May Alcott

    Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret-¦– Louisa May Alcott

  • I don’t think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that-¦ – Louisa May Alcott

    I don’t think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that-¦– Louisa May Alcott

  • …the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn’t like it. – Louisa May Alcott

    …the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman and didn’t like it.– Louisa May Alcott

  • Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty… – Louisa May Alcott

    Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty…– Louisa May Alcott

  • ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial. – Louisa May Alcott

    ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.– Louisa May Alcott

  • Be worthy love, and love will come. – Louisa May Alcott

    Be worthy love, and love will come.– Louisa May Alcott

  • leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best. – Louisa May Alcott

    leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best.– Louisa May Alcott

  • Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument. – Louisa May Alcott

    Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.– Louisa May Alcott