Enid Blyton Quotes, Thoughts and images

The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.

If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.

Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.

I think people make their own faces, as they grow.

I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.

I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.

We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.

I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!

Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!

My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.

The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them the point is that I know a good person when I see one.

A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.

Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!’ said Jimmy longingly. ‘How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!