Charlotte Bronte Quotes

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

Human, Free, Bird

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

Life, Short, Animosity

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

Nothing, Value, Full

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

Soul, Often, Eye

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, Heart, Human

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

Success, God, Men

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Charlotte Bronte

Mind, Makes, Restless

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

Death, Same, Almost

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, Conscience, While

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

Love, Friendship, Friends

Better to be without logic than without feeling.
Charlotte Bronte

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, Far, Handsome

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

Life, Cannot, Event

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

Around, Matter, State

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
Charlotte Bronte

Christian, Duties, Madam

Conventionality is not morality.
Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
Charlotte Bronte

Him, Give, Enough

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

Between, Mad, Difference

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

True, Feeling, Fine

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

Forward, Try, Keep

Who has words at the right moment?
Charlotte Bronte

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

Nature, Different, Majority

Let your performance do the thinking.
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

Age, Old, Youth

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

Easy, Belief, Creed

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Biography

Nationality: British

Born: April 21, 1816

Died: March 31, 1855

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