11 Quotes By Charlotte Bronte


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 on age

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
Charlotte Bronte on death

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 on dreams

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 on education

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

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
Charlotte Bronte on god

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

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
Charlotte Bronte on men

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
Charlotte Bronte on nature

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.
Charlotte Bronte on strength

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