Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet who lived from 1816 to 1855. She was the eldest of the three Brontë sisters and wrote several novels that became classics of English literature. Her second novel “Jane Eyre” (1847) has been adapted for several films, but also for theatre, television and operas.
This is a collection of quotes by Charlotte Brontë.
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Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.Charlotte Brontë
Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.Charlotte Brontë
Source: Jane Eyre
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.Charlotte Brontë
Source: Jane Eyre
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.Charlotte Brontë
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.Charlotte Brontë
I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.Charlotte Brontë
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.Charlotte Brontë
I would always rather be happy than dignified.Charlotte Brontë
Source: Jane Eyre
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.Charlotte Brontë
Source: Jane Eyre
Rapidly, merrily,Charlotte Brontë
Life's sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily
Enjoy them as they fly!
Source: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
The idea of marrying a doll or a fool was always abhorrent to me. I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion cooled, how dreadful to find a lump of wax and wood laid in my bossom, a half-idiot clasped in my arms, and to remember that I had made of this my equal - nay, my idol - to know that I must pass the rest of my dreary life with a creature incapable of understanding what I said, of appreciating what I thought, or of sympathising with what I felt!Charlotte Brontë
Source: The Professor
Quoted: William Crimsworth
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.Charlotte Brontë
