Charlotte Bronte Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Charlotte Bronte quotes, Charlotte Bronte sayings, and Charlotte Bronte proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may. Charlotte Bronte
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Charlotte Bronte
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. Charlotte Bronte
Your will shall decide your destiny. Charlotte Bronte
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. Charlotte Bronte
Let your performance do the thinking. Charlotte Bronte
Suspense is irksome, disappointment bitter. Charlotte Bronte
It is not violence that best overcomes hate — nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury. Charlotte Bronte
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. Charlotte Bronte
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you! Charlotte Bronte
The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs. Charlotte Bronte
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. Charlotte Bronte
Look twice before you leap. Charlotte Bronte
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. Charlotte Bronte
I would always rather be happy than dignified. Charlotte Brontë
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. Charlotte Bronte
Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! may your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonized as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love. Charlotte Bronte
Unloved­ I love / unwept­ weep / Grief I restrain ­hope I repress. Charlotte Bronte
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life. Charlotte Bronte
Conventionality is not morality. Self- righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. Charlotte Bronte
I avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward. Charlotte Bronte
You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections; there is nothing like it in this world. Charlotte Brontë
Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? Charlotte Bronte
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. Charlotte Brontë
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life. Charlotte Brontë
Hurried...like one who had always a multiplicity of tasks on hand. Charlotte Bronte
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. Charlotte Bronte
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Charlotte Bronte
I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will. Charlotte Brontë
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye. Charlotte Bronte