Charlotte Bronte Quotes

British - Novelist | April 21, 1816 - March 31, 1855

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

Charlotte Bronte

BirdI AmMeFreeIndependenceWill

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Charlotte Bronte

Looking ForwardLookingForwardTry

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

Charlotte Bronte

LifeExpectationWillEventCannot

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

Charlotte Bronte

LifeMeShortNursingWrongsSpent

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 firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

Charlotte Bronte

EducationHeartGrowSoilNever

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

Charlotte Bronte

WorkSilenceResultsAlwaysWould

Conventionality is not morality.

Charlotte Bronte

MoralityConventionality

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Charlotte Bronte

EnoughWillHimRopeHangGive

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

DreamsHopeHeartSilenceBroken

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Charlotte Bronte

BetterLogicFeelingWithoutThan

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

Charlotte Bronte

HelpWriteGoingBecauseJust

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

AgeOld AgeMemoryYouthNewActive

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