There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into. ‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.
ENID BLYTONSoon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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A clown needn’t be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he’s in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they’re just being ordinary men, they’ve got quite sad faces.
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Hatred is so much easier to win than love – and so much harder to get rid of.
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The point is not that I don’t recognise bad people when I see them – I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them – the point is that I know a good person when I see one.
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Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people’s minds and know when anything unusual was going on.
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All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret – almost magic.
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Well, you know what grown-ups are,’ said Dinah. ‘They don’t think the same way as we do.
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Make up your mind about things, by all means – but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind,
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Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake.
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If you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
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I’m good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.
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I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it’s a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!
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Never lose that honesty, Bobby – always be honest with yourself, know your own motives for what they are, good or bad, make your own decisions firmly and justly – and you will be a fine, strong character, of some real use in this muddled world of ours!
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Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
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They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered.
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You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly – and that is a great thing.
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