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
heart silence broken-promises
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.
degradation poverty
Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
sight cities serious-things
The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.
men littles would-be
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed....
firsts want what-you-want
What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
sister world affection
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
eye soul truthful
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
hate guilt wicked
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.
talking may alarms
Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.
hate mean matter
If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment.
ocean sunset sea
The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.
memories years age
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.
please-me belief easy
I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
nature different merit
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.