E Nesbit Quotes

It wouldn't do to go mixing up the present and the past, and cutting bits out of one to fit into the other.

This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they are wrong sometimes.

How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again?

So he caught her in his arms and kissed her, and they were very happy, and told each other what a beautiful world it was, and how wonderful it was that they should have found each other, seeing that the world is not only beautiful but rather large.

Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.

I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.