Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Esther Forbes

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Esther Forbes.

Last updated on November 9, 2024.

Esther Louise Forbes was an American novelist, historian and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal. She was the first woman elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society.

American - Novelist | June 28, 1891 - August 12, 1967

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I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

Esther Forbes

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

Esther Forbes

If you can't do, you had best shut up.

Esther Forbes

Nobody can make a monkey out of anyone who isn't a monkey to start with.

Esther Forbes

How old are you Johnny" she asked. Sixteen." And what's that-a boy or a man?" He laughed. "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war.

Esther Forbes

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

Esther Forbes

they reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.

Esther Forbes

In old age the secret springs of human nature are apt to come out.

Esther Forbes

Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men - the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.

Esther Forbes

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Esther Forbes

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