827 Quotes by Charlotte Brontë

A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however, well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does - what feeling it spares - what horror it conceals.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand - they only. Know this at last.

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

Look twice before you leap.