Charlotte Bronte Quotes

Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.

I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.

You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx.

Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day.

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.

Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.

Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.

Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

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.

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

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.

He made me love him without looking at me.

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.

Reader, I married him.

All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.

When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

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

"Do you like him much?" "I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults." "Is he?" "All boys are." "More than girls?" "Very likely."

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.

Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere.

I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.

Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

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

No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day.

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

You transfix me quite.

Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.

Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.

Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.

A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play.

Alas! never had I loved him so well!

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?

If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.