When you’re paid to do a job, it’s better to give a few minutes more to it, than a few minutes less. That’s one of the differences between doing a job honestly and doing it dishonestly! See?
ENID BLYTONI’m good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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Well, 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!
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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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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.
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To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness – that is a very terrible thing.
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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.
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My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
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I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
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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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Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
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You’re trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.
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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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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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I don’t believe in things like that – fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It’s old-fashioned.’ ‘
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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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Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life.
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