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 giving soul
I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
fighting battle feminism
But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
life looks leap
Look twice before you leap.
sorrow vision arms
There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.
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.
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.
life success expectations
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
sad education weed
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
personality cheerful matter
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
thank-you answers doe
It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
congratulations men judging
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
life thinking feelings
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
dream sleep insomnia
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
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.