Charlotte Bronte`s quotes

*Remorse is the poison of life.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE, Jane Eyre
*Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE, Jane Eyre
*Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.

CHARLOTTE BRONTE, Jane Eyre
*Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
*CHARLOTTE BRONTE, Jane Eyre
*Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

CHARLOTTE BRONTE, Jane Eyre
*Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE, Jane Eyre
*If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE, Jane Eyre
*It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE, Jane Eyre

*Rapidly, merrily,
Life's sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily
Enjoy them as they fly!
CHARLOTTE BRONTE, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell


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