Charlotte Bronte Quotes

British - Novelist April 21, 1816 - March 31, 1855

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

Charlotte Bronte

I Am Me Bird Independence Free

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

Dreams Thoughts Silence Heart

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

Charlotte Bronte

Life Will Expectation Event

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Charlotte Bronte

Feeling Better Without Logic

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

Charlotte Bronte

Looking Looking Forward Try Forward

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Charlotte Bronte

Wisdom Mind Pillow Restless

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

Education Heart Grow Difficult

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

Without Matter Things Us

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Charlotte Bronte

I Am Me Mad Only

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

Charlotte Bronte

Nature You Different Yours

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

Charlotte Bronte

Life Me Short Spent Too

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Charlotte Bronte

Enough Will Him He

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

Charlotte Bronte

Help Because Just Going

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

Age Old Age Memory Youth

Conventionality is not morality.

Charlotte Bronte

Morality Conventionality

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

Charlotte Bronte

Success God Men Judge

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

Charlotte Bronte

Work Silence Results Always

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

Charlotte Bronte

You World Value Know

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

Action Will Find Say

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Charlotte Bronte

Death Feel Same I Feel

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

Love I Love You Me You

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

Charlotte Bronte

Soul Eye Still Truthful

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

Charlotte Bronte

Friendship Love Friends Foundation

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

Friends You World Guilt

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

Life Strength Yourself You

Let your performance do the thinking.

Charlotte Bronte

Thinking Performance Your

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