Louisa May Alcott Quotes


You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. - Louisa May Alcott


Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it. - Louisa May Alcott


Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling. - Louisa May Alcott


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. in Little Women. - Louisa May Alcott


What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles? - Louisa May Alcott


We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing. - Louisa May Alcott


The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting. - Louisa May Alcott


Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more. - Louisa May Alcott


Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. - Louisa May Alcott


She was the first of her kind... She was a woman living in a man's world and succeeding in a man's world. - Louisa May Alcott


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