Charlotte Mary Yonge Quotes

• The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Love, Mistake

  "Gold Dust: A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life".

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• Las hermanas mayores nunca hacen justicia a las más jóvenes.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Sister, Sibling, Justice

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (1873). “The Pillars of the House, Or Under Wode, Under Rode”

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• Cuando se trata de acontecimientos y personajes históricos, siempre es justo que el lector sepa qué libertades se ha tomado y qué parte del relato se basa en la historia.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Taken, Character, Historical

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (2015). “Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)”, p.7498, Delphi Classics

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• If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a long meal of sweets; then history is a rest, for research or narration brings a different part of the mind into play.

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  Sweet, Stupid, Writing

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• A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Degrees, Delicacy, Decency

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• General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Dangerous, Application, Instance

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (1873). “The Pillars of the House, Or Under Wode, Under Rode”, p.268

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• The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled.

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  Brother, Grief, Loss

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (2015). “Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)”, p.8801, Delphi Classics

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• Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Aroma, Christianity, Refinement

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• If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Loyalty, Husband, Believe

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (1890). “Womankind”

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

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Latin, Noses, Speak

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (2015). “Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)”, p.8433, Delphi Classics

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

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  Doubt, Old Testament, Richness

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (1890). “Womankind”

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• Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Christian, Men, Grace

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (1890). “Womankind”

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• 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.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Travel, Scotland, Space

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (2015). “Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)”, p.7498, Delphi Classics

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