Quotes by Charlotte Bronte

“Good-night, Dr. John; you are good, you are beautiful; but you are not mine. Good-night, and God bless you!”

“Ever after that I knew what I was for him; and what I might be for the rest of the world, I ceased painfully to care.”

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

“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”

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

“I feel monotony and death to be almost the same”

“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”

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

“You know full well as I do the value of sisters affections: There is nothing like it in this world.”

“Im just going to write because I cannot help it.”

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

“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.”

“Better to be without logic than without feeling.”

I have an inward treasure born within me which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

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

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time as aromatic wine it seemed on swallowing warm and racy its after-flavor metallic and corroding gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

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

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness it has no taste.

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