Charlotte Bronte Quotes
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. – Charlotte Bronte
Conventionality is not morality. – Charlotte Bronte
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. – Charlotte Bronte
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. – Charlotte Bronte
I am no bird, and no net ensnares me. – Charlotte Bronte
Better to be without logic than without feeling. – Charlotte Bronte
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. – Charlotte Bronte
It is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. – Charlotte Bronte
I’m just going to write because I cannot help it. – Charlotte Bronte
You have no business to take our books; you are a dependent, mama says; you have no money; your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not to live here with gentlemen’s children like us. – Charlotte Bronte
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. – Charlotte Bronte
I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me. – Charlotte Bronte
I’m just going to write because I cannot help it. – 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
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
I’m not heartless, and I pity him. – Charlotte Bronte
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to calm down. It is as impossible to forget the impossibility of finding adequate employment as to drop a teaspoonful of live totammies into to my tea, and forget the matter. – Charlotte Bronte
You shall have a walk every day, said Bessie, and I will take you out in the carriage sometimes. – Charlotte Bronte
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. – Charlotte Bronte
I’m just going to write because I cannot help it. – Charlotte Bronte
I’m an independent ain’t I? – Charlotte Bronte
I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion. – Charlotte Bronte
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. – Charlotte Bronte
You alone can understand the accent of my soul. – Charlotte Bronte
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own. – Charlotte Bronte
I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse. – Charlotte Bronte
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. – Charlotte Bronte
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. – Charlotte Bronte
Look at the successful men around you: How many of them have time to be gentlemen? – Charlotte Bronte
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. – Charlotte Bronte
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. – Charlotte Bronte
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. – Charlotte Bronte
The remedy for most in the cure of fear. – Charlotte Bronte
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
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. – Charlotte Bronte
To a romantic heart, the scenes in which they have been suffered and enjoyed seem to belong to the immortal. It is genuine heaven. – Charlotte Bronte
I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion. – Charlotte Bronte
One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune when one never had a prospect of one’s own. – Charlotte Bronte
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. – Charlotte Bronte
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. – Charlotte Bronte
I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest – blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine. – Charlotte Bronte
It is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex. – Charlotte Bronte
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. – Charlotte Bronte
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. – 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
I’m just going to write because I cannot help it. – Charlotte Bronte
You’re always staring at these, said the master, take them for yourself. – Charlotte Bronte
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own. – Charlotte Bronte
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. – Charlotte Bronte
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own. – Charlotte Bronte