Charlotte Quotes

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

The limitation of the vlog format is that it may seem to give people enough, when they actually have no real autonomy.

It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

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 depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

People are only 'disappointing' when one makes a wrong diagnosis.

I am at that age when former child stars go off the rails.

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost.

If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.

Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.

Silene, who declines The garish noontide's blazing light; But when the evening crescent shines, Gives all her sweetness to the night.

Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.

The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself

He made me love him without looking at me.

The spiritual warrior hides from nothing. We jump into the fire, we dive into the ocean. We become the sea.

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

I would assume most people hate my character. But I'm hoping that I'm the character you love to hate.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

Concepts antedate facts.

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.

You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

A bear remains a bear - even when most of him has fallen off or worn away.

No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day.

When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.

I like to play roles different from myself so I can hide behind them.

Music is the voice of all humanity, of whatever time or place. In its presence, we are one.

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward.

Even moving around onstage seemed very artificial. But at the same time you have to make that effort in order to get back to who you are and even accept not moving, if that's who you are.

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.