Quote by: Charlotte Bronte

No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.


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Author Bio


  • NameCharlotte Bronte
  • DescriptionEnglish novelist and poet
  • AliasesCurrer Bell; Charlotte Nicholls
  • BornApril 21, 1816
  • DiedMarch 31, 1855
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Novelist
  • WorksJane Eyre; Villette