Charlotte Quotes

Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

I think there is a shadow network where everybody has infiltrated in terms of hotel concierges, restaurants, will tip off journalists or paparazzi, the airlines, everywhere.

... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.

However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.

Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?

One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.

I can't stand Bob Dylan.

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.

And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.

Your will shall decide your destiny.

Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.

Coffee is not as necessary to ministers of the reformed faith as to Catholic priests. The latter are not allowed to marry, and coffee is said to induce chastity.

The scent changes the way you feel about yourself, the energy, and the aura you emit, but also directly changes the way others respond to you.

I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto.

Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

I'm not a make-up person, but I love wearable products that are easy to use, with fun packaging

Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.

His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.

California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

I'll never go. How can I? How far would I get without my heart?

The life of a good man is a continual prayer.

What the deuce is to do now?

What we remember most about rooms we like is the 'atmosphere.'

All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we will acquire...the objects we cannot live without.

They say rubbers mainly for perverts. Dont know why. Think its very practical, actually. I mean, you spill anything on it and it just comes off. I suppose that could be why the perverts like it.

What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?

Coincidence means only a connection that's not seen. Roots meet underground.

I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.

The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.

I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

Make my happiness--I will make yours.

You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.

Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.

Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.

The law has no power over heroes.

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.

To try to be better is to be better.