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Charlotte Bronte Quotes



Quotes by Charlotte Bronte - (22 quotes)

Charlotte Bronte - From the Activity category:

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)

Charlotte Bronte - From the Belief category:

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me. (Charlotte Bronte)

Charlotte Bronte - From the Boredom category:

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. (Charlotte Bronte)

Charlotte Bronte - From the Complaining category:

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

Charlotte Bronte - From the Danger category:

Look twice before you leap. (Charlotte Bronte)

Charlotte Bronte - From the Education category:

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)

Charlotte Bronte - From the Effort category:

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. (Charlotte Bronte)

Charlotte Bronte - From the Emotion category:

Better to be without logic than without feeling. (Charlotte Bronte)

Charlotte Bronte - From the Enthusiasm category:

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it. (Charlotte Bronte)

Charlotte Bronte - From the Freedom category:

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

Charlotte Bronte - From the Friendship category:

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

Charlotte Bronte - From the Happiness category:

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)

Charlotte Bronte - From the Life category:

-Villette, 1853
Life is so constructed that the event does not, cannot, will not match the expectation. (Charlotte Bronte)

Charlotte Bronte - From the Morality category:

Conventionality is not morality. (Charlotte Bronte)

Charlotte Bronte - From the Performance category:

Let your performance do the thinking. (Charlotte Bronte)

Charlotte Bronte - From the Repose category:

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. (Charlotte Bronte)

Charlotte Bronte - From the Seeing category:

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye. (Charlotte Bronte)

Charlotte Bronte - From the Silence category:

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)

Charlotte Bronte - From the Uniqueness category:

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

Charlotte Bronte - From the Vision category:

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. (Charlotte Bronte)

Charlotte Bronte - From the Words category:

Who has words at the right moment? (Charlotte Bronte)

Charlotte Bronte - From the Writing category:

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it. (Charlotte Bronte)