Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Brontëwas an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. She first published her worksunder the pen name Currer Bell...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 April 1816
depressing pages difficult
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
love dream dare
Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.
life success expectations
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
fighting battle feminism
But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
self giving soul
I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
love inspiring women
I would always rather be happy than dignified.
life looks leap
Look twice before you leap.
sunny hours enjoy
Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!
love women integrity
I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.
sad education weed
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.
lying years creative
But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent.
sorrow vision arms
There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.
break-up heartbreak heartbroken
I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
personality cheerful matter
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.