The Best Louisa May Alcott quotes

Love is a great beautifier. — Louisa May Alcott

Be worthy of love, and love will come. — Louisa May Alcott

We’re twins, and so we love each other more than other people. — Louisa May Alcott

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us. — Louisa May Alcott

I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn’t love me. — Louisa May Alcott

She’ll go and fall in love, and there’s an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together. — Louisa May Alcott

Where I wholly love I wholly trust. — Louisa May Alcott

To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage. — Louisa May Alcott

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man. — Louisa May Alcott

I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us. — Louisa May Alcott

I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another! — Louisa May Alcott

I’m tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this. — Louisa May Alcott

Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law. — Louisa May Alcott

For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride. — Louisa May Alcott

Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints. — Louisa May Alcott

To me, love isn’t all. I must look up, not down, trust and honor with my whole heart, and find strenght and integrity to lean on — Louisa May Alcott

Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you. — Louisa May Alcott

He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die–hard. — Louisa May Alcott

Because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man. — Louisa May Alcott

Love covers a multitude of sins… — Louisa May Alcott

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy. — Louisa May Alcott

This love of money is the curse of america, and for the sake of it men will sell honor an honesty, till we don’t know whom to trust. — Louisa May Alcott

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man. — Louisa May Alcott

Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends. — Louisa May Alcott

It is so much better to work for others than for one’s self alone. — Louisa May Alcott

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

You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play — Louisa May Alcott

Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate it. — Louisa May Alcott

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace. — Louisa May Alcott

Woman work a great many miracles. — Louisa May Alcott

Where the heart is the mind works best. — Louisa May Alcott

Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him. — Louisa May Alcott

Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are. — Louisa May Alcott

So she doesn’t call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She’s a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her. — Louisa May Alcott

Don’t shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world’s work, for it all affects you and yours. — Louisa May Alcott

Head, you may think; heart, you may feel; But hand, you shall work alway! — Louisa May Alcott

People don’t have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It’s a dreadfully unjust world. — Louisa May Alcott

Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive. — Louisa May Alcott

Stay’ is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary. — Louisa May Alcott

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others. — Louisa May Alcott

People cannot be molded like clay. — Louisa May Alcott

It’s lovely to see people so happy. — Louisa May Alcott

Well, if I can’t be happy, I can be useful, perhaps. — Louisa May Alcott

Dear me! how happy and good we’d be, if we had no worries! — Louisa May Alcott

Well, I am happy, and I won’t fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants. — Louisa May Alcott

Don’t mind me. I’m as happy as a cricket here. — Louisa May Alcott

I’d rather see you poor men’s wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen’s on thrones, without self–respect and peace. — Louisa May Alcott

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged. — Louisa May Alcott

I’m perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy. — Louisa May Alcott

You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone. — Louisa May Alcott

If life is often so hard as this, I don’t see how we ever shall get through it. — Louisa May Alcott

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn’t it? — Louisa May Alcott

Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction. — Louisa May Alcott

Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom. — Louisa May Alcott

Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors. — 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

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

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic. — Louisa May Alcott

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

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. — Louisa May Alcott

Better lose your life than your soul. — Louisa May Alcott

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. — Louisa May Alcott

Because talent isn’t genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. — Louisa May Alcott

That’s what old people are here for,–else their experience is of little use. — Louisa May Alcott

Don’t try to make me grow up before my time. — Louisa May Alcott

Jo’s ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her. — Louisa May Alcott

I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy. — Louisa May Alcott

Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. — Louisa May Alcott

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret. — Louisa May Alcott

When I had the youth I had no money, now I have the money I have no time, and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life. — Louisa May Alcott

You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones. — Louisa May Alcott

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever. — Louisa May Alcott

Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her. — Louisa May Alcott

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambItious young men and women. — Louisa May Alcott

I want to do something splendid…something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead. I don’t know what, but I’m on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday. — Louisa May Alcott

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays. — Louisa May Alcott

We can’t any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly. — Louisa May Alcott

Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood. — Louisa May Alcott

I went [to war] because I couldn’t help it. I didn’t want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done. — Louisa May Alcott

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

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything. — Louisa May Alcott

I can’t help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart. — Louisa May Alcott

For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls. — Louisa May Alcott

It’s a great comfort to have an artistic sister. — Louisa May Alcott

I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books. — Louisa May Alcott

My book came out; and people began to think that topsy–turvy Louisa would amount to something after all. — Louisa May Alcott

A love for good books is one of the best sAfeguArds A mAn cAn hAve. — Louisa May Alcott

Books are always good company if you have the right sort. — Louisa May Alcott

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. — Louisa May Alcott

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again. — Louisa May Alcott

That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. — Louisa May Alcott

And best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her. — Louisa May Alcott

Take some books and read; that’s an immense help, and books are always good company if you have the right sort. — Louisa May Alcott

Books have been my greatest comfort, castle–building a never–failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement. — Louisa May Alcott

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. — Louisa May Alcott

Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air. — Louisa May Alcott

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you. — Louisa May Alcott

Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is. — Louisa May Alcott

I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world! — Louisa May Alcott

To the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world. — Louisa May Alcott

I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within. — Louisa May Alcott

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world. — Louisa May Alcott

I will make a battering–ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world. — Louisa May Alcott

It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts. — Louisa May Alcott

Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness. — Louisa May Alcott

Jo began to dance a jig,…Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with uplifted hands, ‘Well I do believe the world is coming to an end! — Louisa May Alcott

She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him. — Louisa May Alcott

I’m afraid I couldn’t like him without a spice of human naughtiness. — Louisa May Alcott