Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

- Elizabeth Von Arnim

But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.

- Elizabeth Von Arnim

There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.

- Elizabeth Von Arnim

[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but…

- Elizabeth Von Arnim

... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

- Elizabeth Von Arnim

What a blessing it is to love books.

- Elizabeth Von Arnim

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns…

- Elizabeth Von Arnim

Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

- Elizabeth Von Arnim

And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.

- Elizabeth Von Arnim