Quotes 21 till 40 of 51.
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I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Gaskell - The life of Charlotte Brontë (1870) p.285 -
I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
Allott - The Brontës, the critical heritage (1974) -
I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
Jane Eyre (1847) ch. 6 -
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.
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I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in 'Vogue,' but it's far more important to get your dresses on the back of a famous person. Charlotte Rampling in Bruce Oldfield. That sells.
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I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.
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I would always rather be happy than dignified.
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If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
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If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.
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Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit.
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It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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It seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance: something spoke out of me over which I had no control.
Jane Eyre (1847) ch. 4 -
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
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Look twice before you leap.
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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
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One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.
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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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