If you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
ENID BLYTONIf you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
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.
ENID BLYTONLeave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
ENID BLYTONI do love the beginning of the summer hols,’ said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.’ ‘They go so nice and slowly at first,’ said Anne, his little sister. ‘Then they start to gallop.
ENID BLYTONMothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people’s minds and know when anything unusual was going on.
ENID BLYTONWhen you’re paid to do a job, it’s better to give a few minutes more to it, than a few minutes less. That’s one of the differences between doing a job honestly and doing it dishonestly! See?
ENID BLYTONLaugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
ENID BLYTONYou are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly – and that is a great thing.
ENID BLYTONIt wasn’t a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
ENID BLYTONWell, 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!
ENID BLYTONI am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It’s their children I love.
ENID BLYTONRemorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life.
ENID BLYTONWriting for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
ENID BLYTONThey 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 BLYTONThe best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.
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.
ENID BLYTON