Charlotte Mary Yonge

“I don’t know, but I thought they were the best sort of gifts, for I saw that plenty of kind thought and…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“Yes, yes, I know, Harry; but to think how little we knew, or thought, or felt — going on in our own…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“THE MISFORTUNES OF THAT DAY disheartened and disconcerted Etheldred. To do mischief where she most wished to do good, to grieve where…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“I thought no one complained unless to get a thing remedied.’ ‘Exactly so. That is man! And experience never shows man that…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“It has not hurt,’ musingly repeated Leonard. ‘No, she is beyond the reach of distracting temptations and sorrows; it has only made…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“What I mean is, that the real gladness of life is not in these great occasions of pleasure, but in the little…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“I do not seem to have felt anything yet,’ said Averil, passing her hands over her face. ‘I seem to be made…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“No, I am not sorry for having offended him. I don't mind him; but Ailie, how little one knows! All the angry…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“One can’t lightly part with a man one has seen at church every Sunday of one’s life, and exchanged so many friendly…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful,…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“She almost began to fancy herself unfeeling, when she found him so much more depressed than she was herself, and unable to…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“Quand on veut dessecher un marais, on ne fait pas voter les grenouilles. — Mme. EMILE. DE GIRADIN”

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“With Henry she had less in common. He expected of her what she had not learnt, and was not willing to acquire.…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“I always read a bit every morning. To-day it was, ‘Of four things that bring much inward peace’. And what do you…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“Ethel did not like anything to be said to be too hard for her, and was very near pleading she only wanted…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“You see,” said Margaret kindly, “we all know that men have more power than women, and I suppose the time has come…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“I like your understanding it,” said Margaret, smiling sadly. “I don’t know whether it is silly, but I don’t like to be…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“I think,” said Ethel, breaking in, “the philosophy is this: I believe that it is a trying life. I know teaching takes…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

The mistake we make is when we seek to be loved instead of loving.

— Charlotte Mary Yonge