Charlotte Bronte

Novelist

1816-04-21 – 1855-03-31

Charlotte Bronte was an English novelist and poet, best known for Jane Eyre. She was the eldest of the Bronte sisters and a major figure in 19th-century English literature.

Books by Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre
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Shirley
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Villette, a novel
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Quotes by Charlotte Bronte

Besides, I seemed to hold two lives— the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished with a sufficiency of the strange necromantic joys of fancy, the privileges of the latter might remain limited to daily bread, hourly work, and a roof of shelter.
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My world had for some years been Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.
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I would always rather be happy than dignified.
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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.
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It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
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Life appears to me to be too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
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Look twice before you leap.
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