Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Brontė was an English novelist and the eldest of the three Brontė sisters whose novels have become enduring classics of English literature. She first published her work under the pseudonym Currer Bell.
Found 14 thoughts of Charlotte Bronte

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 there, firm as weeds among stones.'

Charlotte Bronte

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

Charlotte Bronte

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Charlotte Bronte

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

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

Who has words at the right moment?

Charlotte Bronte

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

Charlotte Bronte

I'm just going to write because I cannot help 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

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Charlotte Bronte

I hold a creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldon mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home - not a terror and an abyss. With this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime, I can so sincerly forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degredation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice bever crushes me too low; I live in calm, looking to the end.

Charlotte Bronte

Look twice before you leap.

Charlotte Bronte

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

Charlotte Bronte