Charlotte Bronte Quotes
"It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Action, Tranquility, Will)
"You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Nothing, Sisters, Value, World)
"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 being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Life, Strength, Being, Living, Right)
"I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Love)
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Life, Wrongs)
"Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Life, Expectation, Will)
"Let your performance do the thinking."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Performance, Thinking)
"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Action, Will)
"If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Nature, Majority, Merit)
"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Love, Friendship)
"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 without friends."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Conscience, Friends, Guilt, World)
"I'm just going to write because I cannot help it."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Help)
"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 years."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Age, Memory, Old, Years, Youth)
"I feel monotony and death to be almost the same."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Death)
"Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Men, Success, God)
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Being, Will)
"I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Belief)
"Give him enough rope and he will hang himself."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Will)
"Conventionality is not morality."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Morality, Conventionality)
"Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Consistency, Christian, First)
"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 and around us."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Cheerfulness, State)
"Better to be without logic than without feeling."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Feeling, Logic)
"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Mind)
"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
- Charlotte Bronte
"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 firm there, firm as weeds among stones."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Education, Heart)
"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Difference)
"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Soul, Eye, Unconscious)
"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 revealed."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Dreams, Heart, Thoughts, Silence)
"True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Enthusiasm, Feeling)
"Look twice before you leap."
- Charlotte Bronte