Quotes by Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë

British Novelist

Lived from: 1816 - 1855

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 21 april 1816 Died: 31 march 1855

  • 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.
  • Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
  • Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
  • Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
  • Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
  • There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
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  • A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
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  • Adversity is a good school.
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  • Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.
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  • Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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  • Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
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  • 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.
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  • Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
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  • Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
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  • Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
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  • Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.
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  • Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
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  • God did not give me my life to throw away.
    Jane Eyre (1847) ch. 35
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  • Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
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  • I am neither a man nor a woman but an author.
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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
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  • I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
    Allott - The Brontës, the critical heritage (1974)
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  • 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
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  • 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 wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.
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What are the most famous quotes from Charlotte Brontë?

The two most famous quotes from Charlotte Brontë are:

  • "A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow."
  • "Adversity is a good school."

When did Charlotte Brontë live?

Charlotte Brontë was born in 1816 and died in the year 1855.