Charlotte Bronte Quotes

“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. Charlotte Brontë”

— Ginny L. Yttrup

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.” —Charlotte Brontë, ”

— L.J. Shen

I think I learned discipline on 'Jane Eyre.' Charlotte Bronte's dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre's character, is so…

— Cary Fukunaga

Charlotte Bronte was writing about sex. I supposed Jane Austen was, too. Where do you get a hero like Darcy unless you…

— Alice Munro

“Charlotte Bronte borrowed liberally and sloppily from Joseph Sheridan le Fanu when penning Jane Eyre. The originality of this classic novel is…

— Andrew Barger

“Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. (Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)”

— Anonymous

I would pretend when I was a child that I was Charlotte Brontë, because I'd read Jane Eyre when I was ten…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives who would not remove themselves.”

— Elizabeth Hardwick

I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.…

— SangFroid Stalker

We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers…

— Virginia Woolf

“The first duty of an Author is --- I conceive --- a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a…

— Juliet Barker

Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

“Velg hva du vil, Anni, sa Indira. Hun var like rastløs her som jeg hadde vært i avdelingen for dameklær. For en…

— Lucinda Riley

“I was reading Charlotte Bronte, and Jane was being serenaded by Mr. Rochester. (I see the source of all my problems: a…

— Zen Cho

“We are always sure that the heroine is fiery and passionate, which is quite an achievement when the plot has had to…

— Ian Gregor

“[On Wuthering Heights] Here, all the faults of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë are magnified a thousand fold, and the only consolation…

— James Lorimer

“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited…

— Hope Nicholson

“consciousness. Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1855), Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley (1849), George Eliot’s Silas Marner (1861) and many…

— Neil Hegarty

“The first unanalysed impression that most readers receive from Jane Eyre is that it has a very violent atmosphere. If this were…

— Ian Gregor

Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia…

— Elif Batuman

“Such an attitude presupposes confidence in one's own power to search for and recognize the truth, as well as trust in the…

— Marianne Thormählen

“There was is Arthur Nicholls much to recommend him to Charlotte Bronte, not least of which was the disparity between surface and…

— Juliet Gael

“On Saturday mornings during deliveries, I'd practice picking out new words in Jane Eyre, sounding out the ones that needed sounding out—and…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“You can’t take a class if taking a class feels like it’s going to kill you. Faking it never works. If you…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat…

— Adrienne Rich

“The small Japanese immortal sat cross-legged, his two swords resting flat on the ground before him. He folded his hands in his…

— Michael Scott

“t this point I would like to return to the question of the plot movement and the different narrative levels of the…

— Ian Gregor

“Reading Mrs Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë after Jane Eyre is a curious experience. The subject of the biography is recognisably the…

— Ian Gregor

“Oh, don't get me started! I love fantasy, I read it for pleasure, even after all these years. Pat McKillip, Ursula Le…

— Terri Windling

“Tonight, however, Dickens struck him in a different light. Beneath the author’s sentimental pity for the weak and helpless, he could discern…

— Margaret Irwin

“One could not but play for a moment with the thought of what might have happened if Charlotte Brontë had possessed say…

— Virginia Woolf

“I see you are in a dilemma, and one of a peculiar and difficult nature. Two paths lie before you; you conscientiously…

— Charlotte Bronte

I would say it was [ifluence] all the Greeks and the Russian classics like [Lev] Tolstoy, [Andrey] Goncharov,[Fedor] Dostoyevsky, [Alexander] Pushkin, and…

— Vera Nazarian

“The present realist bases his work upon types. Miss Bronte took the individual individually; we now take the mass representatively. Who would…

— Henry Bonnell

We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for…

— Virginia Woolf

“I suspect that Jane Austen's practice of denying herself the aid of figurative language which, as much as any of her other…

— Mary Lascelles

A few times a year I'll remember that I love old literature, too. Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" is one of my 10…

— Cheryl Strayed

“[Charlotte Brontë] once told her sisters that they were wrong - even morally wrong - in making their heroines beautiful as a…

— Elizabeth Gaskell