Virginia's Quotes

'What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well.'

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.

'If you become a bird and fly away from me,' said his mother, "I will be a tree that you come home to.'

Many dogs can understand almost every word humans say, while humans seldom learn to recognize more than half a dozen barks, if that.

Every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

I once had a sparrow alight on my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn.

There is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.

Do not be moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.