Quotes by : Charlotte Brontë

I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures,....

. . . nobody in particular is to blame, that I can see, for the state in which things are . . .

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion...Appearance should not be mistaken....

(...)because Miss Temple has generally something to say which is newer than my own reflections; her language....

Our power of being happy lies a good deal in ourselves, I believe.

It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift....

Your will shall decide your destiny.

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this duty....

Come, Paul!" she reiterated, her eye grazing me with its hard ray like a steel stylet. She pushed against....

No; you shall tear yourself away, none shall help you: you shall yourself pluck out your right eye; yourself....