Charlotte Bronte Quotes

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

"I'm just going to write because I cannot help it."
-Charlotte Bronte

"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
-Charlotte Bronte

"I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward."
-Charlotte Bronte

"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow."
-Charlotte Bronte

"Look twice before you leap."
-Charlotte Bronte

"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."
-Charlotte Bronte

"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 there, firm as weeds among stones.'"
-Charlotte Bronte in Education quotes.

"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."
-Charlotte Bronte

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."
-Charlotte Bronte

"Better to be without logic than without feeling."
-Charlotte Bronte

"If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."
-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."
-Charlotte Bronte in Heart quotes.

"Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves."
-Charlotte Bronte in Judgement quotes.