Quotes by Charlotte Bronte

• Who has words at the right moment?
• 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.
• You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
• I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
• Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
• Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
• Let your performance do the thinking.
• 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.
• If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
• If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
• I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.
• 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 feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
• Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
• I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
• I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
• Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
• Conventionality is not morality.
• Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
• 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.
• Better to be without logic than without feeling.
• A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
• I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
• 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.
• There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
• The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
• 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.
• True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
• Look twice before you leap.
• Happiness is found in the simplest moments, not in the grandest achievements.
• True strength lies in being unapologetically yourself, despite the pressures of conformity.
• I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
• Life is like accounting - everything must be balanced in the end.