Author: Charlotte Bronte

Quotes

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

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

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

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

- 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

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

- 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

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

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

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