Charlotte Quotes

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.

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

You can't fool an audience with lots of bits and pieces. You have to lead them somewhere.

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.

Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives

I am no bird and no net ensnares me

Power, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny.

I regret not having enough training, I trained for a year at The Royal Court, but I very quickly went off to do films and television.

Religion is like music, one must have an ear for it. Some people have none at all.

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

Don't choose anything that's two tones lighter than your natural lip tone, and make sure there's a little pink in the hue so it doesn't look too washed out.

I am not qualified to be a Dame. To be Dame you have to represent England in a way that I don't.

To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.

Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes

I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

There are two categories of women. Those who are women and those who are men's wives.

If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.

I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.

I died in Auschwitz, but no one knows it

I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.

Call me anything you like, but don't call me a lady.

I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.

Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart.

Speaking passionately from the very center of who you are is compelling, forceful, persuasive: that’s what leadership sounds like.

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere.

Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.

A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.

I always take a less-is-more approach to my routine, and use products that create a sun-kissed glow that can transition from day to night.

I discovered makeup when I was 13, and it changed my life. I started wearing mascara, and overnight, people reacted to me in a very different way - I was more popular and I felt more confident.

That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.

Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!

There are moments when things just break apart and not really for very valid reasons, either. But they just change your life and make you go in different directions.

I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

I was shocked to find out that only 50 percent of women do not engage with makeup and the reasons are: They don't know how to use it, they don't know what suits them, they don't have the time.

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

We are what we are, the spirit afterwards, but first the touch.

Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key.