Charlotte Smith Quotations

The way was through lanes bounded by elms, which, though not yet in full leaf, were so closely interwoven in the bank with a luxurious growth of holly, that nothing was to be seen beyond them - till on a sudden the road, ascending a steep hollow way, opened to a kind of common field, forming the top of a high promontory, commanding an immense extent of the sea, and, for many miles, the indented cliffs of the western coast.

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

It just seemed like everybody got deflated when they kept hitting shots, ... We have to be tougher than that. We can't let a team hit a couple of tough shots and then say: 'Oh well, we can't stop them.' That's what we can take from this game. Mental toughness. We can't let ourselves get deflated like that.

In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.

It is a little hill, or rather three or four hills that seem piled together... and just where their shade is the darkest, they suddenly recede, and, from a stoney excavation, bursts forth a strong and rapid stream of pure and brilliant water, which pours directly down the precipice, and is lost in the trees that crowd over it.

The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.

The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.

In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty.