827 Quotes by Charlotte Brontë

Let your performance do the thinking.

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate.

I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.

The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.

My wretched feet, flayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal and subside under the gentler breathings of April; the nights and mornings no longer by their Canadian temperature froze the very blood in our veins; we could now endure the play-hour passed in the garden.

On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you.

There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart...