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

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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
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.
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  • Remorse is the poison of life.
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  • 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.
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  • 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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  • Though the only road to freedom lie through the gates of death, those gates must be passed; for freedom is indispensable.
    The Professor (1857) ch. XXV
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  • What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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  • You - poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are - I entreat to accept me as a husband.
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  • 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.
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