Quotes by : Charlotte Turner Smith

They say I am a reformer. They say wrong: for I have long since given up any such chimerical idea, as....

I think that our form of government is certainly the best—not that can be imagined—but that has ever....

Novel-writing has in one respect an affinity to the drama—that time and distance are required to soften....

I have heard that all ideas of equality are visionary—that they can never be realized—and I believe....

I was told, and indeed I saw several examples, that neither time nor place was much minded, and that....

It has been said that Shakespeare, the great delineator of human character, has failed in distinguishing....

For having been educated in a convent, she knew nothing of the customs or manners of the world; and found....

Turn your thoughts to novel writing—narrative, let it be about what it will, is read, because the mind....

I might, indeed, read history; but whenever I attempt to do so, I am to tell you the truth, driven from....

Ah! candid and unadulterated mind! you have learned early to reflect; but take care lest this habit,....

If truth is not to be spoken, Sir, in a government, calling itself free, least it should be understood....