American novelist (1832-1888)
No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
A Long Fatal Love Chase
You don't need scores of suitors. You need only one ... if he's the right one.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Rose in Bloom
Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Jack and Jill: A Village Story
I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
A principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
An Old-Fashioned Girl
I like good strong words that mean something.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Jo's Boys
Have a regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
Woman work a great many miracles.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life become a beautiful success, in spite of poverty.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
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.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
An Old-Fashioned Girl
Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women