Top 20 Yonge Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Yonge

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

#2. 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

#3. A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

#4. 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

#5. It makes me smile because you said it best
I would clearly feel blessed if the sun rose up from the west.

Owl City

#6. 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

#7. The mistake we make is when we seek to be loved instead of loving.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

#8. I think I have had so many amazing moments in my life.

Eve

#9. 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

#10. many men are neither worthy of their wives, nor of their dogs.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

#11. I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

#12. 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

#13. From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.

Adolf Eichmann

#14. God invented Iowa, he always said, so people could leave it and never come back.

Justin Cronin

#15. 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