Charlotte Bronte Quotes

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Charlotte Bronte

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Charlotte Bronte

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Charlotte Bronte

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

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

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

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

Charlotte Bronte

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

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Charlotte Bronte

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

Charlotte Bronte

Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labors for his race; he clears their painful way to improvement; he hews down like a giant the prejudices of creed and caste that encumber it. He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon. His is the exaction of the apostle, who speaks but for Christ, when he says, Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. His is the ambition of the high master-spirit, which aims to fill a place in the first rank of those who are redeemed from the earth -- who stand without fault before the throne of God, who share the last mighty victories of the Lamb, who are called, and chosen, and faithful.

Charlotte Bronte

One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.

Charlotte Bronte

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Charlotte Bronte

You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.

Charlotte Bronte

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Charlotte Bronte

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Charlotte Bronte

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Charlotte Bronte

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Charlotte Bronte

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

Charlotte Bronte

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