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 BLYTONThey lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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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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It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
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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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Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
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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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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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Hatred is so much easier to win than love – and so much harder to get rid of.
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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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Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
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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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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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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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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’m good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.
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