The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
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The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
CHARLOTTE CURTIS Henry James and Edith Wharton are huge for me because they gave me a way to understand America while...
CLAIRE MESSUD Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing...
EDITH WHARTON I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
HARRY MATHEWS The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me.
MICHAEL DIRDA 'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter a...
JAMES FRAIN I crossed the room to him. "I love you," I said in a rush, afraid I would change my mind.
"Char...
EDITH PATTOU She would search for him.
In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon.
But...
EDITH PATTOU In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have ...
SUSAN WIGGS Neither Rose nor Charles liked to talk much of their adventures with the trolls, but some of the so-...
EDITH PATTOU The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, yo...
HELEN VENDLER I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite...
KEN FOLLETT I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry Jam...
CYNTHIA OZICK Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.
H. L. MENCKEN We have heard a lot about Edith Clement. What about this Edith Jones?
JOHN GIBSON The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reig...
PHILIP GUEDALLA Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future.
AYN RAND I will never let you know how much you hurt me
No, I will never tell you
The lasts few m...
HENRY ROLLINS Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
AYN RAND The upper classes are... a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
AYN RAND Viveca's clients were mostly upper-middle class and lower-upper class.Being of these classes , they'...
GILLIAN FLYNN It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual...
EDITH WHARTON The Brontë sisters have a renewed hold upon our imagination. They were gifted, well-educated, espec...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts...
BIBLE Henry," said Charlotte, who appeared to have recovered from her shock, "if you set yourself on fire ...
CASSANDRA CLARE And of course Charlotte hasn't eaten a bit of dinner," Henry said, getting up. "I'll go see if Bridg...
CASSANDRA CLARE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming thing...
GERMAINE GREER I am a mother and I have been divorced, and I love fashion and the Upper East Side.
KELLY RUTHERFORD A trio of reputations lie at the heart of Henry James's 'The Portrait of a Lady.'
TINA BROWN Since I've moved here a Chinese takeaway on the main street has ominiously renamed itself from whate...
OLIVIA SUDJIC Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
AYN RAND Henry James chews more than he bites off.
If you look at the demographic breakdown where sales occur, they are much heavier along the east and...
JAMES RICCI Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
OSCAR WILDE As bright examples of great qualities are but too uncommon among Christians, so are they singular an...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.
NORMAN MACCAIG I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. I've always loved Dickens. And Henry James. Tolstoy, Dostoevski.
NORMAN ROCKWELL Abril é o mês mais cruel, gera lilases da terra morta, mistura a memória e o desejo, mistura raí...
JULIA GREGSON Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto
JULIA GREGSON The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
OSCAR WILDE I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it...
AIMEE CARTER I've never managed to get very far with Henry James.
SARAH WATERS We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford; the w...
BENITO MUSSOLINI Most men’s eyes, when you look at them critically, are not like that. They may look at you very ex...
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to...
CAITLIN MORAN Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The culture that Edith Wharton writes about is very nouveau riche. They don't have the experience or...
JANE JONES It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of t...
JOHN SERGEANT WISE Patience and Gentleness is Power.
- Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),
LEIGH HUNT (JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT) How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA We are Lilies fair,
The flower of virgin light;
Nature held us forth, and said,
"Lo! my...
LEIGH HUNT (JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT) We're graduating Gabe, and that's an enormous number of points to lose off a team, and we don't have...
GARY STRICKLER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD I have only read very classic traditional English ghost stories, other than Henry James, who wrote s...
SUSAN HILL Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT I have a tattoo of an executioner on my right upper arm. I have a tattoo of the Grim Reaper on my le...
DOMINICK CICALE Our inexperience showed. That is something we have to work on if we want to be an NCAA team or a com...
EZRIA PARSONS [Historian] Kevin Starr has written that "the San Diego free speech battles revealed the depths of r...
JUSTIN AKERS CHACóN Henry shuffled the jewelled insect back out of his pocket. It amber heart warmed light through the p...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
DAVID ANTIN Charlotte, Will’s being
vexing.'
'And the sun has come up in the east,'
said Jem, t...
CASSANDRA CLARE I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more tha...
PETER STRAUB The Tiffany lamp is an American icon bridging the immigrants, settlement houses, and the slums of th...
SUSAN VREELAND Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.
MARK TWAIN Instead, every precaution was taken not to violate his rights. Remember, many administrators have no...
JAMES C. DOBSON Because in the long run' Stoner said, 'it isn't Edith or even Grace, or the certainty of losing Grac...
JOHN WILLIAMS In the immediate aftermath of the tsunami we did not encourage tourists, but now that many parts of ...
ARJUNA RANATUNGA You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ...
RAY BRADBURY To be honest, we are not Wharton. We are not Kellogg.
BRUCE BEHN
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His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.
CHARLOTTE CURTIS It does sound odd if by America [he] means 3,000 miles of superhighways, greasy spoons, HoJos, Ramad...
CHARLOTTE CURTIS The new, young, chic and acquisitive rich, the restless young Europeans and the beautiful people sti...
CHARLOTTE CURTIS The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.
CHARLOTTE CURTIS Every horse I get on I can adapt to. It's like a jigsaw puzzle.
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN I was frightened. I hadn't really had any experience, and then all of a sudden I was thrown stra...
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN When women go wrong, men go right after them.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON I am not a Sunday morning inside four walls
with clean blood
and organized drawers.
I...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Horizons, cheap whisky straight from the bottle
and your hands in mine.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city. The noise and all its people...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the mor...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the ge...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you kno...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, you are my confidante, my helpmate, my friend. My lover. You are everything the word wife mean...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to st...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You can kid the world, but not your sister.
CHARLOTTE GRAY Monsieur, if a wife's nature loathes that of the man she is wedded to, marriage must be slavery. Aga...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refi...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë So you will meet many ’someones’ who will give a new definition to your name.
And you can ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rathe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I would always rather be happy than dignified.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON The stars are brilliant at this time of night
and I wander these streets like a ritual I don�...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON So I am not a broken heart.
I am not the weight I lost or miles or ran and I am not the way I ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I want to learn how to speak to anyone at any time and make us both feel a little bit better, lighte...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE As to the sufferers, whose sole inheritance was labour, and who had lost that inheritance - who coul...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.
CHARLOTTE BUNCH If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather tha...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not...
CHARLOTTE WHITTON But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. We are, and mus...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whos...
CHARLOTTE OBSERVER I tell you I must go! Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automa...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the ma...
CHARLOTTE BINGHAM Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,
CHARLOTTE BARNARD Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labors for his race; he clears t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourse...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to con...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE There's no use in weeping,
Though we are condemned to part:
There's such a thing as keeping CHARLOTTE BRONTE Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Look twice before you leap.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitt...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Conventionality is not morality.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your prese...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madn...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the gr...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; an...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Reader, I married him.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and ab...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of br...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is vain to say human beings might be satisfied with tranquillity; they must have action, and they...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne."
"I ask why? I must have a reason. In all re...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and ab...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE In genere si crede che le donne siano molto quiete: le donne invece provano gli stessi sentimenti de...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this wo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone ...
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING For me, I wouldn't mind if I never did another Olympics; nothing can beat London. The setting, t...
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN I've had so many letters from people saying I've inspired them to take up riding, and that...
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Big words seldom accompany good deeds.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON I have moments where I feel incredibly ugly or fat, and it sucks, you know? I'll usually try to ...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot b...
CHARLOTTE BUNCH Riding clothes are ageless and timeless, and I love to incorporate that comfort and elegance in my l...
CHARLOTTE CASIRAGHI Growing up, I used to go to an inlet to lay out and try to meet all the surfer guys.
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I'd always tell my mom, 'I want to be famous like Claudia Schiffer or Brigitte Bardot.'
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I'm really interested in finding good tips to stay in shape, and I love being in the gym, and I ...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I remember asking one of my agents, like, 'Hey, is this Instagram thing good for models, or is i...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I think I'm most excited about traveling and shooting and spending time in L.A. I have a great t...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I'm really getting into acting and TV. 'Sports Illustrated' is a big, iconic brand I'...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I can feel so bad about myself, especially if I start to pay attention to the kinds of stupid commen...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I wanted to be something and prove to girls in high school, and to my mum and dad, that I could be r...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I've had such a hard time with dyslexia my whole life. When I was a child, I didn't learn to...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I admire her so much, but I'm not the next Kate Upton.
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I work out really hard, and I stay on my diet all week.
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY Don't be afraid to go up to the hot girl on the beach.
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I can really stir up a conversation. Every time I go to a meeting or a casting, I try to make it as ...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I'm only 5 ft. 7 in. tall, and for modelling, that's small, so I wasn't getting signed, ...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I'm really into fitness, so my hobbies are yoga, Pilates, and working out.
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY You'll always find me at a good sushi spot. Once, at a restaurant, a cook came out from the kitc...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I'm embracing what I have. I'm a curvier bombshell with big boobs. I'm not high-fashion....
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I love fitness, yoga. I love fashion. On the weekends, I try to relax. I have pretty crazy weeks. I ...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY Whenever people talk about dyslexia, it's important to know that some of the smartest people in ...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I'm not interested in just being the hot girl. I'm really goofy, and I love laughing, and th...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Who has words at the right moment?
CHARLOTTE BRONTE There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Let your performance do the thinking.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impr...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Do...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE Better to be without logic than without feeling.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE When one must, one can.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON 5.57am and I’m finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poet...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's wor...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You smoked another cigarette and we shared another coffee and it was just another morning that made ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON ... so this is for us.
This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love
and...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I remember my father saying to me once, 'I finally know how to describe you, Charlotte. You'...
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unneces...
CHARLOTTE KASL You were
water to me
deep and bold and fathoming' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte...
CHARLOTTE MEW I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets in the middle of the night, ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and no...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I haven’t been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I can’t believe it.’ I whispered.
‘You can’t let him lure you back in, Felicia. He’s ...
CHARLOTTE MUNRO So for now,
I will miss you like I’ll never see you again,
And the next time I see you,<...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You’re thinking, maybe it would be easier to let it slip
let it go
say ”I give up” o...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON So many people will tell you ”no”, and you need to find something you believe in so hard that yo...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until y...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's t...
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, w...
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG I was obsessed with David Bowie - still am. He's a babe, a total babe. His music is killer; his ...
CHARLOTTE SULLIVAN If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and abs...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the m...
CHARLOTTE BINGHAM You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the charac...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I was a flower that bloomed and sparked way too fast. He took me in ’cause I was pretty in all kin...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me?
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON 6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,
and I still don’t know which month it was then
or what day it...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about you...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to aband...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Hurting people you love is the heaviest kind of regret.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking ab...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë So now it’s this thing I do.
I go away, ever so often, by myself, for myself,
to new pla...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON My style very much leans towards the masculine, but I think I am feminine in it - I like the feminin...
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING It is a long way off, sir"
"From what Jane?"
"From England and from Thornfield: and ___" CHARLOTTE BRONTë But I was young
and didn’t know better
and someone should have told me to capture every ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON So they gave me love in form of poison and tiny little pills, programming my emotions, teaching me h...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It’s the beating of my heart.
The way I lie awake, playing with shadows slowly climbing up ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON As he clutched her in his shaking hands and wept against her, he whispered into her ear, the words t...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE She glared at him through tear-filled eyes. “You talk of your pain? You cannot even begin to under...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE He towered over her, dwarfing her with his height and the bulk of his body which was clothed in the ...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened t...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Beautiful places are not just a joy for the moment, while you’re there. They will become homes for...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.
CHARLOTTE SMITH It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.
CHARLOTTE BARNARD Dancing at the Blue Iguana
CHARLOTTE AYANNA