List of Eleanor Porter Quotes

I Long Ago Discovered That You Can't Tell About Pollyanna. The Minute You Try To, She Sounds Priggish And Preachy, And--impossible. Yet You And I Know She Is Anything But That.

Of Course Things You Don't Know About Are Always Nicer'n Things You Do, Same As The Pertater On 'tother Side Of The Plate Is Always The Biggest.

One Day It Was About Getting Married That Mother Talked With Me, And I Said I Was So Glad That When You Didn't Like Being Married, Or Got Tired Of Your Husband, You Could Get Unmarried.

Oh, But Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, You Haven't Left Me Any Time At All Just To- To Live.

I Love Different Folks.

There Was A Thoughtful Frown On The Face Of The Man Who Was The Possessor Of Twenty Million Dollars.

The Sun Was Slowly Setting In The West, Casting Golden Beams Of Light Into The Somber Old Room.

My Relationship With "pollyanna" Is A Very Personal One, Because Pollyanna Got Me Through My Childhood.

You Lose Such A Lot Of Time Just Sleeping ... When You Might Just Be Living! ... It Seems Such A Pity We Can't Live Nights Too.

Oh, Yes; The Game Was To Just Find Something About Everything To Be Glad About—no Matter What 'twas

It'll Be Just Lovely For You To Play -- It'll Be So Hard. And There's So Much More Fun When It Is Hard!

... If God Took The Trouble To Tell Us Eight Hundred Times To Be Glad And Rejoice, He Must Want Us To Do It—some.