827 Quotes by Charlotte Brontë

What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived.

It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?

The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.