19 Quotes & Sayings By Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Brontë was born on 21st December 1816 in Thornton, Yorkshire, England. She was the eldest daughter of Patrick Brontë and his wife (and Charlotte’s mother) Maria Branwell. Despite her father's ongoing mental illness and his attempt to end her education when she was little more than a child, Charlotte managed to attend local schools and receive private tuition from a governess. At the age of seventeen, she accepted an offer of employment as assistant teacher of French at Lowood school, near Huddersfield. The following year, Charlotte met the young teacher's assistant Arthur Bell Nicholls (1814–1846), who had recently left school Read more

They began courting, but Nicholls' tuberculosis began to take its toll on their relationship. After Nicholls' death in 1845, Charlotte moved back to the Bronte family home at Haworth with her mother and sisters Emily and Anne. She worked on new material for her collection of stories which had been rejected by several publisher; these new works included Jane Eyre (1847), Villette (1853) and The Professor (1857). Charlotte married fellow writer Branwell Brontë in 1846, but after his death in November 1848 she lived alone until her own death on 31st January 1855.

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I have an inward treasure born within me which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford. Charlotte Bronte
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Better to be without logic than without feeling. Charlotte Bronte
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong. Charlotte Bronte
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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. Charlotte Bronte
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Charlotte Bronte
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Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness it has no taste. Charlotte Bronte
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Life is so constructed that the event does not cannot will not match the expectation. Charlotte Bronte
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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
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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
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. Charlotte Bronte
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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
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I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will. Charlotte Bronte
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Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. Charlotte Bronte
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Charlotte Bronte
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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
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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. Charlotte Bronte
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Look twice before you leap. Charlotte Bronte
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. Charlotte Bronte