Charlotte Bronte was a famous Novelist from United Kingdom, who lived between April 21, 1816 and March 31, 1855. He/she became only 38 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac taurus, who is known for Security, Subtle strength, Appreciation, Instruction, Patience.
Our collection contains 31 quotes who is written / told by Charlotte.
31 Famous quotes by 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"
"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"
"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"
"Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties"
"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"
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs"
"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"
"I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me"
"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"
"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"
"I feel monotony and death to be almost the same"
"I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me"
"Give him enough rope and he will hang himself"
"Conventionality is not morality"
"Better to be without logic than without feeling"
"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye"
"Look twice before you leap"
"I'm just going to write because I cannot help it"
"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"
"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward"
"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"
"You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world"
"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow"
"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad"
"Let your performance do the thinking"
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will"
"Who has words at the right moment?"
"Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation"
