827 Quotes by Charlotte Brontë

That I should like to have it is certain: whether it would be judicious or wise is another question.

I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.

Thoughtful for Winter’s future sorrow,Its gloom and scarcity;Prescient to-day, of want to-morrow,Toiled quiet Memory.’Tis she that from each transient pleasureExtracts a lasting good;’Tis she that finds, in summer, treasureTo serve for winter’s food.And when Youth’s summer day is vanished,And Age brings Winter’s stress,Her stores, with hoarded sweets replenished,Life’s evening hours will bless.

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

If I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from the easy tasks, what preparation would such sloth be for the future I propose myself?

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

I wait, with some impatience in my pulse, but no doubt in my breast.

You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream

Lingerer, my brain is on fire with impatience; and you tarry so long!