Author: Charlotte Bronte

Quotes

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

- Charlotte Bronte

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.

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.

- Charlotte Bronte

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

- Charlotte Bronte

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

- Charlotte Bronte

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

- Charlotte Bronte

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

- Charlotte Bronte

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

- Charlotte Bronte

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

- Charlotte Bronte

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

- Charlotte Bronte

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