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
austin helping sensible
Jane Austin was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete and rather insensible (not senseless) woman. If this is heresy, I cannot help it.
firsts want what-you-want
What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
men littles would-be
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed....
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.
degradation poverty
Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
heart silence broken-promises
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.
married reader
Reader, I literally married him.
character eye fire
To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break... I am ever tender and true.
flattery rudeness deals
I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.
men names evil
If you like poetry let it be first-rate; Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith, Pope (if you will, though I don't admire him), Scott, Byron, Camp[b]ell, Wordsworth, and Southey. Now don't be startled at the names of Shakespeare and Byron. Both these were great men, and their works are like themselves. You will know how to choose the good and avoid the evil; the finest passages are always the purest, the bad are invariably revolting, you will never wish to read them over twice.
judging judge-me critics
I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.
adversity school trouble
Adversity is a good school.
people excellence talent
Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.
spring winter years
This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the year when the icy January wind carries over the waste at once the dirge of departing winter, and the prophecy of coming spring.