It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid …

- E. Nesbit

Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.

- E. Nesbit

Time and space are only forms of thought.

- E. Nesbit

There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to…

- E. Nesbit

It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.

- E. Nesbit

everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep on.

- E. Nesbit

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

- E. Nesbit

When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true--such things, for instance, a…

- E. Nesbit

There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books.

- E. Nesbit