Charlotte Bronte Quotes

• Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced — true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Topics in Friendship

• And it is you, spirit–with will and energy, and virtue and purity–that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Topics in Love

• 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.

  Charlotte Bronte

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• What animal magnetism drew thee and me together—I know not.

  Charlotte Bronte

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• Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation.

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• Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.

  Charlotte Bronte

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• 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.

  Charlotte Bronte

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• I describe imperfect characters. Every character in this book will be found to be more or less imperfect, my pen refusing to draw anything in the model line.

  Charlotte Bronte

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• Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England.

  Charlotte Bronte

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• 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

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• Reader, I married him.

  Charlotte Bronte

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• The soul fortunately, has an interpreter—often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter—in the eye.

  Charlotte Bronte

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• I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:—Hunt, shoot, and fight : the rest is not worth a flip.

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• Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel: they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer…it is thoughtless to condem hem, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.

  Charlotte Bronte

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• But two miles more and then we rest ! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the brightness of the west Sit then, awhile, here in this wood So total is the solitude, We safely may delay.

  Charlotte Bronte

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• We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age—Are they withered in the sod?

  Charlotte Bronte

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

  Charlotte Bronte

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Human, Free, Freedom

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

  Charlotte Bronte

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Topics in Life

• I would always rather be happy than dignified.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Women

Charlotte Bronte (55)

Birth:	21st April, 1816
Death:	31st March, 1855
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Poet

About

Charlotte Bronte was born in Thornton, west of Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire. She was an English novelist and poet. She first published her works under the pen name Currer Bell. In 1833 she wrote a novella, The Green Dwarf, using the name Wellesley. In 1848 Charlotte began work on the manuscript of her second novel, Shirley. She spent some time working as a teacher and a governess, and would later use these experiences in her work.

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