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
regret poison remorse
Remorse is the poison of life.
stars loneliness wings
Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.
love-you sleep missing
You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.
thank-you answers doe
It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
dream sleep insomnia
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
i-love-you beauty love-you
I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
heart broken littles
Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.
congratulations men judging
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
broken-heart dream silence
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.
hate violence overcoming
It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.
friendship sake foundation
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
happiness taste life-and-happiness
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
freedom women equality
I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
action tranquility vain
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.