I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It’s their children I love.
ENID BLYTONWell, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,’ said Bessie. ‘Because we not only believe in the Faraway Tree and love our funny friends there, but we go to see them too – and we visit the lands at the top of the Tree as well!
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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I expect when we grow up, we shall think like them – but let’s hope we remember what it was like to think in the way children do, and understand the boys and the girls that are growing up when we’re men and women.
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As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off,
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Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life.
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I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
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They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by.
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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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The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.
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Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!
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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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It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful.
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We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.
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The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before – but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever.
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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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Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.
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