Charles II of England famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.

  • Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison.

  • A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

  • Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

  • In my search to find myself, I’d found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.

  • I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.

  • Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.

  • Every moment is travel - if understood.

  • My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

  • Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.