Charlotte Bronte Quotes
31 Charlotte Bronte quotes:
"Who has words at the right moment?"
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"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."
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"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."
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"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
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"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."
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"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"
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"Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition."
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"If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it."
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"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."
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"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
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"I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me."
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"I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me."
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"Better to be without logic than without feeling."
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"I'm just going to write because I cannot help it."
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"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."
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"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye."
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"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow."
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