Yonge Quotes & Sayings

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

We all know that America is the worst country in the world, except for all the others. — Mort Sahl

Nix, you have to help me."
"What's put you all in a dither, werewolf?"
"You were right about everything, about the Hie, about me finding my mate. All your predictions came true - though you might have bloody told me exactly who had put a hex on me."
She finally faced him. "I said you'd been ensorcelled, not enchanted, and everyone knew Mariketa wasn't yet a sorceress." She rolled her eyes. "Really, pet - duh?"
Keep a rein on it. — Kresley Cole

Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence. — James Surowiecki

I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end. — 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 than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled ... — 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 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

The mistake we make is when we seek to be loved instead of loving. — Charlotte Mary Yonge

I'm not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a place and everybody goes, 'Wow.' — Margarita Levieva

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

I'm going to be a fortune hunter!' - Lil
'I beg your pardon?' - Sophie — Katherine Woodfine

CBS announced they're canceling As The World Turns. Don't worry though, if you're addicted to the twisted plots, the intrigue, the illicit sex, you can still watch golf. — Craig Ferguson

General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances. — Charlotte Mary Yonge

many men are neither worthy of their wives, nor of their dogs. — Charlotte Mary Yonge

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice! — Charlotte Mary Yonge

A peregrine falcon," a passenger said, "lives at 2180 Yonge Street in Toronto, on the corner of Yonge and Eglinton. It sits high on the Canadian Tire building, hunts from there, brings prey, and in full view of everyone in the offices, tears it to pieces. Blood everywhere. — Kathleen Winter

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 been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. — Charlotte Mary Yonge

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in switch licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his half cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye
(So Priketh hem Nature in hir corages),
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially from every shires ende
Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende,
The hooly blisful martir for to seke,
That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke — Geoffrey Chaucer

I plan to live to be 98, so I'll be the guy at Dundas and Yonge flogging a box of mouldy novels. — Michael Winter

Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it. — Gillian Flynn

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

Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity. — Charlotte Mary Yonge

A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed. — 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 rest, for research or narration brings a different part of the mind into play. — Charlotte Mary Yonge