Charlotte Lucas Quotes

There are few of us who are secure enough to be within love without proper encouragement - Charlotte Lucas

I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.

I am not romantic, you know; I never was.

I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in—and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.

But Elizabeth was not formed for ill-humour; and though every prospect of her own was destroyed for the evening, it could not dwell long on her spirits; and having told all her griefs to Charlotte Lucas, whom she had not seen for a week, she was soon able to make a voluntary transition to the oddities of her cousin, and to point him out to her particular notice. The first two dances, however, brought a return of distress; they were dances of mortification. Mr. Collins, awkward

The day after the assignation with Barstad, the low stacked-heels of Charlotte Neumann, an ordained Episcopalian priest, author of New Art Modalities: Woman/Sin, Sin/Woman, S/in/ister, which, the week before, had broken through the top-10,000 barrier of the Barnes & Noble on-line bestseller list, and who was, not incidentally, the department chairperson, echoed down the hallway and stopped at his door.

In order to gain new experiences, to expand your horizons, to give fate—or serendipity or whatever you want to call it—a chance. And that only happens if we say yes to things.

Unfortunately, I'm probably Charlotte Lucas." She was the most practical character I could think of, even if her practicality did lead her to marry Mr. Collins.

every day, every individual second of someone’s life, was too precious to waste, to smother in care and worry. Life was for living, regardless of how long you had left. For ultimately, no one knew when their last moment would arrive,

though it is Charlotte Lucas. You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger security for happiness.” “I must think your language too strong

Bennet’s emotions were much more tranquil on the occasion, and such as he did experience he pronounced to be of a most agreeable sort; for it gratified him, he said, to discover that Charlotte Lucas, whom he had been used to think tolerably sensible, was as foolish as his wife, and more foolish than his daughter!

È troppo doloroso" gli disse "pensare che Charlotte Lucas sarà padrona di questa casa, che io sarò costretta a sgomberarle il campo e a sopportare di vederle prende il mio posto!" "Non abbandonarti, mia cara, a questi tristi pensieri. Cerchiamo di avere speranze migliori. Illudiamoci che possa essere io a sopravviverti.

Indeed, Mr. Bennet," said she, "it is very hard to think that Charlotte Lucas should ever be mistress of this house, that I should be forced to make way for her, and live to see her take her place in it!" "My dear, do not give way to such gloomy thoughts. Let us hope for better things. Let us flatter ourselves that I may be the survivor." This

Non si possono aggiungere più giorni alla vita, ma si può aggiungere più vita ai giorni.

We find out what we’re capable of when we have no other choice.

Who had ever actually said that you couldn’t have everything you wanted in life? Was it an immutable law? Sure, it was in line with a healthy way of thinking, but was it actually true?

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become deeds. Watch your deeds; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

all of Jane’s heroines will marry for love and nothing else. Of course their suitors come with material advantages, and no one chooses foolishly, but what it really comes down to, for Catherine Morland, Elinor Dashwood, Lizzy Bennet, Fanny Price, Emma Woodhouse and Anne Elliot, is finding the right man. Or … so you think at first. Jane’s novels are celebrated for the new meanings you pick up each time you reread them. And when Jane approaches the moment when her heroines must marry, it is possible to argue that something a little strange happens to her storytelling. Yes, this is a highly contentious suggestion, but bear with me. If you look at the exact moments where love is brought to a climax, and matches are made, you may find them a little abrupt, almost perfunctory. We don’t hear Emma Woodhouse accepting Mr Knightley’s proposal, we don’t see Edmund falling in love with Fanny Price. And in the very final paragraph of Mansfield Park, the object of Fanny’s affections, like Charlotte Lucas’s, is defined as a house. It was Mansfield Parsonage that she now finds ‘as dear to her heart’ as anything.24 Perhaps Jane treated these events lightly, almost mechanically, because she didn’t really believe that a man, on his own, could bring a happy ending. So, if there is even a smidgeon of possibility that Jane herself might choose to marry a house,

At last Porch explodes. “I feel like I’m walking four dogs at the same time,” he says loudly. “One short-legged, one long-legged, one old and decrepit, and one just plain foolish!” He points at Orson. “You are not listening. Imelda, you are in love with your vibrato. Minna and Lucas, your minds are elsewhere. Up, up!” Porch waves his arms.

Your task instead is to think about how you would like your life to be. Make a list of everything, big and small, that you wish for. Success, money, love, a new hobby, ten children . . . Look for pictures in magazines, cut them out, and stick them on some posterboard. Then hang it up where you can easily see it. This is your “vision board.” Lay your tracks into the future. The images will help your subconscious make all your dreams come true! Because: “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” (Seneca). And another: “Wishes are things that we can make come true.” (Johann Wolfgang Goethe).

Today, do the exact opposite of what you normally do. And look forward to seeing what happens as a result. Change means changing your ways—only by so doing can you have new experiences that may surprise you. Make a break with your habits, test yourself, expand your horizons! If you usually hold the phone in your right hand, use your left. Do your shopping in a different supermarket and buy different brands, take the bus instead of the car, be particularly friendly to people who usually irritate you. If you eat out, order food you don’t usually eat. Experience the world around you as something completely new, as though you were a different person and not yourself. Enjoy!

blanket. Lucas called Charlotte and Anna out of the sea to take our places and I lay back on my towel next to Nadia, closing my eyes.

from service of Miss Charlotte Catherine Jane Lucas. Miss Lucas, you are to receive immediately the original settlement of £10,000 established by Lady Anne, plus the returns it has earned through very wise investments which now total approximately £14,000, making the retirement settlement now to be valued at approximately £24,000.   “Also, Lady Anne transferred her dowry of £40,000 to be an additional settlement for Miss Lucas. The returns this addition has earned through very wise investments now total approximately £65,000

After making sure Jane was adequately covered, Elizabeth allowed Mr. Bingley entry.

Sir Paul McCartney, the Bishop of Kent?

After three years at Marshalsea,

Mr. George Harrison,

John Lennon,

former curate was appreciative, as he was betrothed to a Miss Cynthia Powell

Mr. Lennon was a dynamic speaker, and his singing voice was a pleasure to hear.

Yes, the new doctor we hired, Mr. Richard Starkey,

Sometimes I have moments of pure astonishment when I realize that William, it seems, is very sure that he knows all of me. He believes that I am the person he sits across from at dinner every evening; he thinks he understands the woman with whom he lies at night. I suppose this means that I am a good wife. But I cannot think of a single time that I have shared more than the barest surface of my thoughts with him, and keeping myself always in check can sometimes feel so very draining.

It was easily one of the best sermons she had heard and delivered with a confidence she had not thought her cousin capable of possessing. She turned to Charlotte, saw her friend’s eyes bright with pride and affection and realized, for the first time, that perhaps Charlotte’s marriage to Mr Collins was not merely an agreement of convenience.

Our energy is guided by the focus of our attention,” she said, telling Lisa what she believed from the innermost depths of her heart. “So when we turn our thoughts to what we want, the probability of attaining it is so much greater than if we’re constantly wrestling with what we don’t actually want.

You shall not defend her, though it is Charlotte Lucas. You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger security for happiness.

There are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.’” “That sounds like Dad.” I raised a brow. “His quotes were sometimes spot on. Credit that one to Pride and Prejudice’s Charlotte Lucas.

Charlotte Lucas’s restaurant is tucked away on a quiet, leafy side street in Silver Lake, the sky streaked pink and indigo through the dense, heavy branches of the mimosa trees overhead. Will is expecting some kind of echoing, gentrified macaroni factory but in fact Lodge is small and intimate and familiar in a good way, the walls painted a warm cream and votives flickering in tidy lines on the wide wooden tables. Out back is a courtyard, wisteria vining along the brick walls and tiny white lights strung up overhead. It reminds him of the kind of place you’d find hidden down at the end of a pee-smelling alley in the West Village back home, and for a moment he misses New York so much and so viscerally the inside of his head starts to roar.

There are only two days in the year when nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow.

The cards are advising you to lighten up,” she said. “Let go of your cares, don’t hang on to your pain, get rid of all your baggage.

I didn’t mind that I was approaching the end of my third decade and didn’t have a Diana Barry or Charlotte Lucas to call my own. I really didn’t. I had her once, but then I lost her. Once upon a time had always been good enough for me.

Might Mr. Collins and I meet with you, your sisters, Mr. Darcy, Mr. Bingley, the Phillips and the Gardiners? Perhaps between all of us, we might craft a plan.

Charlotte was no simpleton. Becoming Mrs. Collins would cost her something. But Charlotte Lucas, spinster, would at last have a home of her own.

You know that worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair—you expend a lot of energy but you never get anywhere.

And they lived insanely ever after... Except Charlotte Lucas, who, dressed as a man, took to the sea and ended up as a pirate captain.

A true northerner ought to be a hardy being, unafraid of storms, possessing at least three oilskin jackets and a sou'wester ready for action.

Watch your thoughts; thoughts become reality!

Sometimes things that seem so horrific that we can’t face them are nevertheless true.

one essential aspect of childcare during her training: to avoid tears and tantrums, don’t allow children to actually lose a game.

a person’s fortune was colored by their attitude: optimists experienced good things, pessimists bad, and the universe would give those who expected the worst what they deserved.

again.

She will when you inform her that I wish it,” Miss de Bourgh replied before Charlotte was able to speak. “Come, Miss Lucas. We are leaving. You may ride with me.

That unequivocal feeling of being in love. Of warmth and security, of butterflies in the stomach, of an excess of joy and high spirits, laughter and craziness. And of happiness. Yes, happiness.

I’ll tell you one truth: if life’s taught me anything, it’s that you should only do what excites you. Everything else is a waste of time. No one should act against their heart and their own convictions.

Don’t worry so much. You know that worrying is like sitting in a rocking chair—you expend a lot of energy but you never get anywhere.

wanted to work with me. After this, our first project together, I can only say one thing: I would like to work with you again—OFTEN, please! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! You are AMAZING! Wibke Bode. Not only a wonderful friend, but also an excellent doctor, who has been ready with her advice on

There are only two days in the year when nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do, and, mostly, Live. Dalai Lama

Grief

Ah. Making something. That had been absent from his life for even longer than tennis. He vaguely remembered fiddling with colored paper and scissors in nursery school. Never mind; it sounded amusing enough. And he liked the Goethe quote, of course. Even if the writer of the diary had carelessly left out the von. Jonathan picked up a pencil and squeezed a v. in after Wolfgang. The author had been given his title in 1782 by Emperor Josef II, so people should be used to it by now

There are only two days in the year when nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do, and, mostly, Live.

It’s very simple, in fact. I’ll tell you one truth: if life’s taught me anything, it’s that you should only do what excites you. Everything else is a waste of time.

character, for it becomes your destiny.

If it hits home, it’s usually true. And if it’s true, it hits home.

indefinable

He scanned the text once again, then sent it off with a nod. Yes, very good. He who hesitates is lost. He liked to deal with things methodically and quickly; productivity of this kind gave him a warm sense of virtue.

a man to rush things. But what if it wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment fling, but someone he’d known for longer? Hannah tried to ignore the small, malicious voice in her head. It was a crazy notion.

I once read a very comforting thought in a book: when you die, you return to the same state as you were in for millions of years before your birth—you’re physically absent. It’s not a bad thing at all that every one of us must leave this world sometime; we simply return to the universe where our souls have been and will be for the vast majority of time.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry),

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein

When you lay down tracks into the future, you behave as though whatever you wish for has already come true today.

that no one should be judged by appearance; that everyone has value, if we would just look for it; and that while we must strive to do what is right in this world, it is love that makes life truly beautiful.