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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Data di nascita: 24. Novembre 1849
Data di morte: 29. Ottobre 1924
Altri nomi:Frans Hudqson Burnet
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Frances Hodgson Burnett è stata una commediografa e scrittrice inglese.
È nota soprattutto per le sue storie per ragazzi, in particolare Il giardino segreto, La piccola principessa e Il piccolo Lord.
Frasi Frances Hodgson Burnett
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„Cose assai sorprendenti possono accadere a chi, avendo nella mente un pensiero sgradevole e scoraggiante, abbia il buonsenso di accorgersene e scacciarlo via in tempo sostituendolo con un altro pensiero piacevole e ottimista. Due cose non possono occupare contemporaneamente lo stesso posto.
Là dove coltivi la rosa, ragazzo mio,
Non può crescere il cardo.“
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden
„Da quando sono nato, non ho mai preso un raffreddore. Sono sempre stato in giro per la brughiera con ogni tempo, come i conigli. La mamma dice che ho respirato troppa aria fresca, in dodici anni, per poter prendere il raffreddore. Sono robusto come il nodo di un ramo di biancospino.“
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden
„Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.“
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
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„When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in--that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies.“
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
„If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind things, sweet things—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.“
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
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„One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands out and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun--which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so. And one knows it sometimes when one stands by oneself in a wood at sunset and the mysterious deep gold stillness slanting through and under the branches seems to be saying slowly again and again something one cannot quite hear, however much one tries. Then sometimes the immense quiet of the dark blue at night with the millions of stars waiting and watching makes one sure; and sometimes a sound of far-off music makes it true; and sometimes a look in someone's eyes.“
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
„Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.“
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
„She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.“
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
