Charlotte Bronte
Quotes by Charlotte Bronte
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
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
— Charlotte Bronte
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
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
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
— Charlotte Bronte
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
— Charlotte Bronte
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
— Charlotte Bronte
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
— Charlotte Bronte
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