Louisa May Alcott Quotes

Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

It's lovely to see people so happy.

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.

He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky.

Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.

I beg leave to assure my honored readers that most of the incidents are taken from real life, and that the oddest are the truest; for no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people.

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.

"Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -

A faithful friend is a strong defense;
And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

The story of his downfall is soon told; for it came, as so often happens, just when he felt unusually full of high hopes, good resolutions, and dreams of a better life.

Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.

El amor expulsa al miedo y la gratitud doblega al orgullo.

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

Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.