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Charlotte Bronte
British
Novelist
About the author
Who has words at the right moment?
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Right
#Words
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.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Action
#Will
#Tranquility
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Nothing
#World
#Value
#Sisters
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.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Right
#Life
#Strength
#Being
#Living
I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Love
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Life
#Wrongs
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Life
#Will
#Expectation
Let your performance do the thinking.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Thinking
#Performance
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.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Action
#Will
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Nature
#Majority
#Merit
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Love
#Friendship
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.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#World
#Friends
#Conscience
#Guilt
I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Help
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.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Years
#Youth
#Old
#Age
#Memory
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Death
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#God
#Success
#Men
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Will
#Being
I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Belief
Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Will
Conventionality is not morality.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Morality
#Conventionality
Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#First
#Christian
#Consistency
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,
British
Novelist
#State
#Cheerfulness
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Feeling
#Logic
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Mind
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
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.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Heart
#Education
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Difference
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Eye
#Soul
#Unconscious
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.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Heart
#Dreams
#Silence
#Thoughts
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist
#Feeling
#Enthusiasm
Look twice before you leap.
Charlotte Bronte,
British
Novelist