Charlotte Brontë ✓

All Charlotte Brontë Quotes

• I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. Awareness
• Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. Anger
• You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. Affection
• The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if… Broken
• The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye. Eye
• A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. Anxiety
• Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. Congratulations
• If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be… Absolved
• I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. Death
• I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me. Beauty
• I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. Avoid
• Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. Constructed
• Better to be without logic than without feeling. Better
• Conventionality is not morality. Conventionality
• Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. Christian
• Give him enough rope and he will hang himself. Enough Rope
• True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it. Admire
• I'm just going to write because I cannot help it. Cannot Help
• Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without… Appear
• Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow… Among
• If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. Cast
• I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me. Always Easy
• Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier… Active
• You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable… Born
• Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left… Bed

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