General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.

- 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 been a long meal of sweets; then history is a res…

- Charlotte Mary Yonge

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 …

- Charlotte Mary Yonge

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

- 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 comfortable to her …

- Charlotte Mary Yonge

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

- Charlotte Mary Yonge

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

- 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 arraying themselves.

- 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 what liberties have …

- Charlotte Mary Yonge