Charlotte Brontë Quotes

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

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Adversity is a good school.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.

Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person’s strength.

To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true. (Mr Rochester to Jane)

Remorse is the poison of life.

It is always the way of events in this life,…no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired.

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