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 BLYTONWe must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
-
-
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.
ENID BLYTON -
If you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
ENID BLYTON -
Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
ENID BLYTON -
You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly – and that is a great thing.
ENID BLYTON -
Well, you know what grown-ups are,’ said Dinah. ‘They don’t think the same way as we do.
ENID BLYTON -
Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life.
ENID BLYTON -
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.
ENID BLYTON -
Hatred is so much easier to win than love – and so much harder to get rid of.
ENID BLYTON -
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.
ENID BLYTON -
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.
ENID BLYTON -
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.
ENID BLYTON -
I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.
ENID BLYTON -
My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
ENID BLYTON -
I don’t believe in things like that – fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It’s old-fashioned.’ ‘
ENID BLYTON -
I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
ENID BLYTON