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Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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Type: Novelist Quotes Category: British Novelist Quotes Date of Birth: April 21, 1816 Date of Death: March 31, 1855 Nationality: British Find on Amazon: Charlotte Bronte Related Authors: Jeanette Winterson Mary Wesley Roald Dahl Bernard Cornwell Hector Hugh Munro George Gissing Anne Perry |
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Charlotte Bronte Better to be without logic than without feeling. Charlotte Bronte 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 Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. Charlotte Bronte Conventionality is not morality. Charlotte Bronte Give him enough rope and he will hang himself. Charlotte Bronte I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me. Charlotte Bronte I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. 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 I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. Charlotte Bronte I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. Charlotte Bronte I'm just going to write because I cannot help it. 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 If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Charlotte Bronte If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. 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 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. Charlotte Bronte Let your performance do the thinking. Charlotte Bronte Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. Charlotte Bronte Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. Charlotte Bronte Look twice before you leap. 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 Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. 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 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 The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye. Charlotte Bronte There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. Charlotte Bronte True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it. Charlotte Bronte Who has words at the right moment? Charlotte Bronte 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 You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. Charlotte Bronte |
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