Kate Greenaway Quotes

A woman once said to me, ‘Any religion that is to be any good to one must be one they make for themselves,’ – and it is so. She, curiously, was a clergyman’s wife.

How different everything is when you are with the right people!

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

Things are so beautiful and wonderful, you feel there must be another life where you will see more – hear more – and know more. All of it cannot die.

A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o’clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning’s post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that – it made me really cry, I was so grateful.

Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.

I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.