Frasi di Louisa May Alcott (211 frasi) | Citazioni e frasi celebri

Origine: Little Women (1868), Ch. 36 : Beth's Secret
Contesto: Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety. It shows itself in acts rather than in words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations. Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come. She did not rebuke Jo with saintly speeches, only loved her better for her passionate affection, and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself. She could not say, "I'm glad to go," for life was very sweet for her. She could only sob out, "I try to be willing," while she held fast to Jo, as the first bitter wave of this great sorrow broke over them together.

“Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…”

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Louisa May Alcott libro Piccole donne

Origine: Little Women

“… and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.”

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Origine: Little Women

“I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within.”

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“Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”

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As quoted in Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book (1923) by Elbert Hubbard, p. 62

“Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.”

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Louisa May Alcott libro Piccole donne

Origine: Little Women

“Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.”

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Origine: The Abbot's Ghost: A Christmas Story

“Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.”

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Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase

Origine: A Long Fatal Love Chase

“Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.”

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Louisa May Alcott libro Little Men

Origine: Little Men

“Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.”

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

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Louisa May Alcott libro Work: A Story of Experience

Variante: She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
Origine: Work: A Story of Experience

“It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.”

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Origine: Marjorie's Three Gifts

“Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.”

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Origine: Little Women

“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.”

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Louisa May Alcott A Long Fatal Love Chase

A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866)

“I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”

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Louisa May Alcott libro Piccole donne

Origine: Little Women

“Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.”

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Origine: Little Women

“I want to do something splendid…
Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead…
I think I shall write books.”

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“When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do.”

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Origine: Little Women (1868), Ch. 41 : Learning To Forget
Contesto: When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

“I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.”

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Marmee March to Jo, in Ch. 8 : Jo Meets Apollyon
Little Women (1868)
Contesto: You think your temper is the worst in the world, but mine used to be just like it. … I've been trying to cure it for forty years, and have only succeeded in controlling it. I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it. … I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.

“Love is a great beautifier.”

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Origine: Little Women (1868), Ch. 24 : Gossip

“… for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.”

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Origine: Little Women

“Let us be elegant or die!”

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Variante: ... but, dear me, let us be elegant or die.
Origine: Little Women