An Old-Fashioned Girl Quotes
"We used to have such happy times, and it's so pleasant to think about them now." - Polly
"I suppose sisters always are grand of their brothers; but I don't believe many girls had as much right to be as I had." - Polly
"It is very pleasant to be loved and admired, very sweet to think we shall be missed and mourned when we die." - Narrator
"And I just wish I had a brother like Jim." - Fanny
"I shouldn't think you 'd envy anybody, for you've got one another." - Polly
"Every cross word I ever said to Jimmy comes back now, and makes me wish I hadn't."
"I hope you'll have a good sleep, Tommy, dear."
"I wouldn't say such things, for if anything should happen to either of you, the other one would feel so sorry."
"Girls shouldn't have secrets from their fathers, then there wouldn't be any fuss."
"I will if I can; but I won't tell lies for anybody!"
"I'm glad I came though, for I see money don't give people everything."
"She does draw well," said Tom, looking critically at the sketch of a boy with a pleasant face, round whom Polly had drawn rays like the sun.
"You might as well wish 'em in your mouth and done with it, if you are too lazy to pick 'em up."
"I'm afraid you 're hurt. I didn't mean to," muttered Tom.
"Make her as like yourself as possible, my dear; nothing would please me better."
"I can't dress much now, you know, 'cause mamma's in black for somebody," observed Miss Alice Lovett.
"I shouldn't enjoy them if I didn't have a fine dress, and dance all the time, and be admired, and all the rest of it."
"I wish some one would invent a new amusement for rich people. I'm dead sick of parties, and flirtations, trying to out-dress my neighbors, and going the same round year after year, like a squirrel in a cage."
"I'd like to learn, papa, and Polly is a splendid teacher, I know; she's always so patient, and makes everything so pleasant."
"It suits old people better than your opera things, and mother used to enjoy it so much."
"My dear, of course I would, and we want you to take Maud at once, and teach her your sweet songs."
"She wouldn't take you at any price," said Fanny.
"A little poverty would do you good, Fan; just enough necessity to keep you busy till you find how good work is."
"I hope I shall be, Polly, but you know they say that in families, if there is a boy who can't do anything else, they make a minister of him."
"I don't want a religion that I put away with my Sunday clothes, and don't take out till the day comes round again; I want something to see and feel and live by day-by-day."
"Life, my brethren, is like plum-cake. In some, the plums are all on the top; we eat them gayly till they are gone. In others, they sink to the bottom, and we look for them in vain."
"We make our own cakes, in a great measure, therefore let us look to it, my brethren, that they are mixed according to the best receipt, baked in a well-regulated oven, and gratefully eaten with a temperate appetite."
"I'm a pretty poor affair, Polly, but I'm not mean enough to do that, while I've got a conscience and a pair of hands."
"Anything honest, Tom, and don't forget that your father began the world as a shop-boy."
"It is only beginning again, he says; and having worked his way up once, he feels as if he could again."
"Odd, isn't it, how people live together ever so long, and don't seem to find one another out, till something comes to do it for them."
"A good woman to love and help him all his life, as you will me, please God."
"The best thing a man can have, is work with a purpose in it, and the will to do it heartily."