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
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.
I could have been a great many things.
Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -
I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
Everybody has their days of misfortune.
Souls and bodies should go on together.
Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.
Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions
I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them.
... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.