Quotes by Charlotte Bronte

About Charlotte Bronte:

Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. She first published her works (including her best known novel, Jane Eyre) under the pen name Currer Bell.
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Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

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

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

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

Let your performance do the thinking.

Charlotte Bronte

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

Charlotte Bronte

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

Charlotte Bronte

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

Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Charlotte Bronte

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Charlotte Bronte

Who has words at the right moment?

Charlotte Bronte

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

Charlotte Bronte

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

Charlotte Bronte

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

Charlotte Bronte

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

Charlotte Bronte

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

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

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

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

Nunca había pensado que pudiera temblar de aquel modo ante su presencia, que perdiera así la voz y hasta el movimiento al verle".

Charlotte Bronte

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