Charlotte Bronte Quotes
|
|
|
|
|
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
[Anger]
|
|
|
|
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
|
|
|
|
Look twice before you leap.
|
|
|
|
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.
[Active]
|
|
|
|
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
|
|
|
|
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.
[Prejudice]
|
|
|
|
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.
[Forgiveness]
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
|
|
|
|
There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd.
|
|
|
|
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
|
|
|
|
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
|
|
|
|
Who has words at the right moment?
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
|
|
|
|
|
|