Elizabeth von Arnim quotes

What a blessing it is to love books. (Elizabeth von Arnim)
If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind. View quote
Elizabeth von Arnim
There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief. View quote
Elizabeth von Arnim
I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow. View quote
Elizabeth von Arnim
But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading. View quote
Elizabeth von Arnim
Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful. View quote
Elizabeth von Arnim
Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty. View quote
Elizabeth von Arnim
She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I shall lead for the next six months. Oh, I could dance and sing for joy that the spring is here! What a ressurection of beauty there is in my garden, and of brightest hope in my heart. View quote
Elizabeth von Arnim
What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden. View quote
Elizabeth von Arnim
[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside. View quote
Elizabeth von Arnim
Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely. (Elizabeth von Arnim)
Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand. View quote
Elizabeth von Arnim
It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life. View quote
Elizabeth von Arnim
On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines I'll lie on the heath and see how the broom flares against the clouds. I shall be perpetually happy, because there will be no one to worry me. View quote
Elizabeth von Arnim
Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them. View quote
Elizabeth von Arnim
Keep quiet and say one's prayers-certainly not merely the best, but the only things to do if one would be truly happy; but, ashamed of asking when I have received so much, the only form of prayer I would use would be a form of thanksgiving. View quote
Elizabeth von Arnim
... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer. View quote
Elizabeth von Arnim