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.
ENID BLYTONOh, 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!
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.
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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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It wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
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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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Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
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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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I’m good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.
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It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily.
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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.
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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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If you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
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They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by.
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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’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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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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