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
self independence lasts
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
giving give-me
God did not give me my life to throw it away.
enemy i-can my-friends
I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
morning spring night
Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.
single lonely loneliness
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
inspirational motivational moving-forward
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
struggle independent bird
Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
inspirational life inspiring
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
happiness feelings comfort
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
summer morning spring
Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.
life forgiveness hate
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
life thinking feelings
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
heartbreak saying-goodbye thinking
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!
people desire wicked
A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.