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
sister world affection
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
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.
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.
high-heels giving rope
Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
christian consistency firsts
Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
rights forever poison
Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.
forgiving lasts firsts
I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
use born parasites
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.
world demand maids
Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.
real novelists study
Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.