Frases de Jean Webster

“The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.”

Jean Webster livro Daddy-Long-Legs

“Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.”

Jean Webster

“Please be thinking about me. I'm quite lonely and I want to be thought about”

Jean Webster livro Daddy-Long-Legs

“I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.”

Jean Webster livro Daddy-Long-Legs

“I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.”

Jean Webster livro Daddy-Long-Legs

“Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

You never answered my question and it was very important.

ARE YOU BALD?”

Jean Webster livro Daddy-Long-Legs

“It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.”

Jean Webster

“It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.”

Jean Webster livro Daddy-Long-Legs

“‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.”

Jean Webster livro Daddy-Long-Legs

“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires”

Jean Webster livro Daddy-Long-Legs

“The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.”

Jean Webster livro Dear Enemy

“This is your heart. Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.”

Jean Webster livro Just Patty

“She was by nature a sunny soul”

Jean Webster livro Daddy-Long-Legs

“I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I
shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.”

Jean Webster livro Daddy-Long-Legs