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
Charlotte Bronte quotes about
hard-work fate done
It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate.
country patriotism world
On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.
would-be flattery vain
flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.
want given hollowness
Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something of your own to bestow it on?
luck fortune quarters
Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.
dying famous-last-words has-beens
Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.
years england clergy
Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England.
charity degradation hunger
For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity ...
moments right-moment
Who has words at the right moment?
years differences wish
I don't wish to treat you like an inferior: that is (correcting himself), I claim only such superiority as must result from twenty years' difference in age and a century's advance in experience.
twilight home heart
I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.
morning nature rain
Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day.
believe trouble christ
Monsieur, sit down; listen to me. I am not a heathen, I am not hard-hearted, I am not unchristian, I am not dangerous, as they tell you; I would not trouble your faith; you believe in God and Christ and the Bible, and so do I.
light important shadow
The shadows are as important as the light.