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Enid Blyton Quotes

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Not sure how many are 100% from Enid??
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Not all... some definitely are and some sound as if they ought to be but probably aren't.
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Quite a lot of them appear to have been taken from our forums thread 'The wisdom of Enid Blyton':

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I've seen the following quotation attributed to Enid Blyton on several other websites as well as Picturequotes (we once had a forums member who used it as their signature) but was it really said/written by Enid?:

"Leave something for someone but don't leave someone for something."
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.

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Anita Bensoussane wrote:
I've seen the following quotation attributed to Enid Blyton on several other websites as well as Picturequotes (we once had a forums member who used it as their signature) but was it really said/written by Enid?:

"Leave something for someone but don't leave someone for something."
It's sounds very much like one of the 'mottoes of the week' in 'Enid Blyton's Book of the Year' - which were sent in by various schools across the country. I can't find it, but then there are 52 mottoes, and I may have missed a few! :lol:
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'

(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)



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Quite a lot of them are definitely Enid, but some I'm not so sure about... it would be interesting to search through those mottoes. :wink:
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That quote doesn't sound like Enid to me. I'm probably quite wrong because I don't know very much about her quotes, but it sounds a bit 'grown-up', talking about leaving someone.
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