Top 200 Charlotte Brontë Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.”

— Charlotte Brontë

52. “Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced – true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.”

— Charlotte Brontë

53. “Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.”

— Charlotte Brontë

54. “His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.”

— Charlotte Brontë

55. “I am neither a man nor a woman but an author.”

— Charlotte Brontë

56. “Daydreams are the delusions of the devil.”

— Charlotte Brontë

57. “You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.”

— Charlotte Brontë

58. “Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.”

— Charlotte Brontë

59. “I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.”

— Charlotte Brontë

60. “After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love – I have found you.”

— Charlotte Brontë

61. “Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.”

— Charlotte Brontë

62. “I ask you to pass through life at my side – to be my second self, and best earthly companion.”

— Charlotte Brontë

63. “Make my happiness – I will make yours.”

— Charlotte Brontë

64. “Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation.”

— Charlotte Brontë

65. “I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal – as we are!”

— Charlotte Brontë

66. “I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost.”

— Charlotte Brontë

67. “Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly withdrawn, and the sound of what consoles must be silenced.”

— Charlotte Brontë

68. “Shake me off, then, sir – push me away; for I’ll not leave you of my own accord.”

— Charlotte Brontë

69. “The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.”

— Charlotte Brontë

70. “And it is you, spirit – with will and energy, and virtue and purity – that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.”

— Charlotte Brontë

71. “It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.”

— Charlotte Brontë

72. “The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.”

— Charlotte Brontë

73. “I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.”

— Charlotte Brontë

74. “When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should – so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.”

— Charlotte Brontë

75. “Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”

— Charlotte Brontë

76. “If you don’t love another living soul, then you’ll never be disappointed.”

— Charlotte Brontë

77. “Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.”

— Charlotte Brontë

78. “Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.”

— Charlotte Brontë

79. “A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.”

— Charlotte Brontë

80. “Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”

— Charlotte Brontë

81. “It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.”

— Charlotte Brontë

82. “Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.”

— Charlotte Brontë

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

— Charlotte Brontë

84. “I don’t call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don’t flatter me.”

— Charlotte Brontë

85. “I am not an angel,? I asserted; ’and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me – for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”

— Charlotte Brontë

86. “We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age? Are they withered in the sod?”

— Charlotte Brontë

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

— Charlotte Brontë

88. “Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.”

— Charlotte Brontë

89. “It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”

— Charlotte Brontë

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

— Charlotte Brontë

91. “He made me love him without looking at me.”

— Charlotte Brontë

92. “To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me – the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.”

— Charlotte Brontë

93. “As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream.”

— Charlotte Brontë

94. “Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.”

— Charlotte Brontë

95. “Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England.”

— Charlotte Brontë

96. “Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.”

— Charlotte Brontë

97. “Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.”

— Charlotte Brontë

98. “Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!”

— Charlotte Brontë

99. “Do you like him much?? I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults.? Is he?? All boys are.”

— Charlotte Brontë

100. “The word book acted as a transient stimulus.”

— Charlotte Brontë