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 BLYTONMy work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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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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Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers.
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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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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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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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Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
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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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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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Well, you know what grown-ups are,’ said Dinah. ‘They don’t think the same way as we do.
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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 don’t believe in things like that – fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It’s old-fashioned.’ ‘
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Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!
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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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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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I’m good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.
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