Charlotte Quotes

Every walk should offer some knotty problem for the children to think out-"Why does that leaf float on the water, and this pebble sink?" and so on.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

I like to go out, but sometimes it's nice to stay cozy at home, watching movies or TV, especially early in the week.

For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.

Love grows by service.

Red lipstick is instant glamour.

Education, like faith, is the evidence of things not seen.

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

Let the parent ask "Why?" and the child produce the answer, if he can. After he has turned the matter over in his mind, there is no harm in telling him - and he will remember it - the reason why.

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

If you have these two things - the willingness to change, and the acceptance of everything as it comes, you will have all you need to work with.

Modern allopathic medicine is the only major science stuck in the pre-Einstein era.

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films

When one must, one can.

The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.

We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.

Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.

You go though a period of immense pain when reality meets the dream.

I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.

Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out.

I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!

Look twice before you leap.

The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.

There's always a time for change, and you should never be frightened of it.

If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.

When you change your diet, you can change your entire physiology and you can heal

Every moment is a moment. Every moment makes a certain request of us. The question is how we answer it.

Imagination does not stir at the suggestion of the feeble, much diluted stuff that is too often put into children’s hands.

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

Profound thought is conveyed in language of very great simplicity and purity.

We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.

The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.