Quotes by Charlotte Bronte
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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.
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
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.
Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
Conventionality is not morality.
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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.
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
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.
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
Who has words at the right moment?
I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
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.
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
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.
Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
Look twice before you leap.
Let your performance do the thinking.
You - poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are - I entreat to accept me as a husband.
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
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