Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!’ said Jimmy longingly. ‘How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!
ENID BLYTONThere 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.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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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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It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hatred is so much easier to win than love – and so much harder to get rid of.
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I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
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The children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.
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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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