Gratitude Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“Is not that government both unjust and ungrateful, that is so prodigal of its favours to those that are called gentlemen, or goldsmiths, or…

— Thomas More Hoban

“To speak truth, reader, there is no excellent beauty, no accomplished grace, no refinement, without strength as excellent, as complete, as trustworthy.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to conceal my…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“How so much honourable is such a contest, in which one's moral conduct and achievement are brought as witnesses rather than the size of…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“And yet, by ingenious contrivance, this gilded minority, instead of being in the tail of the procession where it belonged, was marching head up…

— Mark Twain

“The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. (p 57)”

— Bryant McGill

“The one who lacks a generous purpose cares primarily for recognition. The on with a generous purpose cares primarily for respect.”

— Glenn Llopis

“No one but a fool, and only a fool of a peculiar description, feels offended by the acknowledgment that there are others whose opinion,…

— John Stuart Mill

“But I am weary of this place, and sick to death of playing at philanthropy and progress. Of all varieties of mock-life, we have…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne