Charlotte Quotes

In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.

The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film.

A dog trusts deeply and so is easily betrayed.

Jews have been circumcising their boys for thousands of years, and suddenly we are accused of tormenting our children.

We Jews really don't need any tutoring in democracy.

When you're a mother hen, you sometimes coddle your children. But there are different ways of coddling. Some coddle with luxury, others with love.

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn.

Anybody can claim to be a member of the ALF when rescuing animals, destroying "tools of torture" (such as research equipment) or financially depleting a corporation that abuses animals.

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

There is no logic like the logic of the heart.

It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.

Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

The motives even of our best actions will not always bear examination.

Whatever is done by design is always overdone.

Custom ... changes the very nature of things; and what was honorable a thousand years ago, may probably be looked upon as infamous now.

Truth is not always injured by fiction.

Nothing is more common than for persons to hate those whom they have injured.

It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.

When Actions are a Censure upon themselves, the Reciter will always be consider'd as a Satirist.

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.

There are two things that make a room timeless: a sense of history and a piece of the future.

Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well.

Casual elegance is all about the mix.

A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman?

It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.

For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.

But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.

This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.

I have preferred chloroform to cancer

Until mothers earn their livings, women will not

To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.

At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.

The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living."

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.

It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.

In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each new fashion in thought and theory as well as in dress - or undress.

The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.

I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.

Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.