Quotes by charlotte brönte

“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 s...”

“I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.”

“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.”

“I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will.”

“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”

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

“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.”

“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.”

“Look twice before you leap.”

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

“I have an inward treasure born within me which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford.”

“Better to be without logic than without feeling.”

“Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time as aromatic wine it seemed on swallowing warm and racy its after-flavor metallic and corroding gave me a sensation as if I had been pois...”

“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness it has no taste.”

“Life is so constructed that the event does not cannot will not match the expectation.”

“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.”

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”

“I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more th...”

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some ...”