Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcottwas an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Womenand its sequels Little Menand Jo's Boys. Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth29 November 1832
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Louisa May Alcott quotes about
Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions
Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.
I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them.
Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty...
... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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.
We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.
…the violin — that most human of all instruments…
Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?
A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.
…nothing seemed impossible in the beginning…
…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.