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Charlotte Bronte [1816-1855] British
Rank: 101
Poet (with poems)

Victorian, Gothic, Romanticism


Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. She first published her works under the pen name Currer Bell.

Wisdom, Age, Death, Dreams, Education, Friendship, Hope, Independence, Life, Nature, Strength



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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. Independence
101
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. Dreams, Hope
102
Conventionality is not morality.
103
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. Nature
104
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. Education
105
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. Wisdom
106
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
107
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. Death
108
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
109
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
110
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
111
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. Age
112
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. Life
113
Let your performance do the thinking.
114
Look twice before you leap. Wisdom
115
Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
116
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
117
I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
118
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.
119
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
120
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Friendship
121
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. Strength
122
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.
123
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
124
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.
125
Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
126
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
201
Who has words at the right moment?
202
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
203
I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.
204
I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
205

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