Charlotte Mary Yonge Quotes

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.

A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.

General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.

I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.

That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so arraying themselves.

Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is.

Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.

many men are neither worthy of their wives, nor of their dogs.