What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEYour will shall decide your destiny.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
-
-
Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE -
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE -
You transfix me quite.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE -
Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE -
It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE -
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE -
My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world – the … affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE -
Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before ‘the writing on the wall’ and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE -
Mademoiselle is a fairy,” he said, whispering mysteriously.
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 -
Jane Eyre “I desired more…than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn’t help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE -
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE -
The idea of seeing the sea – of being near it – watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday – in calm, perhaps in storm – fills and satisfies my mind.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE -
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE -
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
CHARLOTTE BRONTE