Top 200 Charlotte Brontë Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.”

— Charlotte Brontë

102. “I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.”

— Charlotte Brontë

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

— Charlotte Brontë

104. “I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.”

— Charlotte Brontë

105. “Well had Solomon said,’Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.”

— Charlotte Brontë

106. “I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest – blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine.”

— Charlotte Brontë

107. “Alas! never had I loved him so well!”

— Charlotte Brontë

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

— Charlotte Brontë

109. “If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.”

— Charlotte Brontë

110. “Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none.”

— Charlotte Brontë

111. “You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme – and when you so give yourself – you lose appetite ans sleep – it cannot be helped –.”

— Charlotte Brontë

112. “Everyone else is just cocktails.”

— Charlotte Brontë

113. “Conventionality is not morality.”

— Charlotte Brontë

114. “That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.”

— Charlotte Brontë

115. “I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.”

— Charlotte Brontë

116. “I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”

— Charlotte Brontë

117. “Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd’s can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.”

— Charlotte Brontë

118. “I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!”

— Charlotte Brontë

119. “I soon forgot storm in music.”

— Charlotte Brontë

120. “Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius.”

— Charlotte Brontë

121. “Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home – my only home.”

— Charlotte Brontë

122. “Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.”

— Charlotte Brontë

123. “I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.”

— Charlotte Brontë

124. “I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.”

— Charlotte Brontë

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

— Charlotte Brontë

126. “Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.”

— Charlotte Brontë

127. “I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.”

— Charlotte Brontë

128. “Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes.”

— Charlotte Brontë

129. “I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?”

— Charlotte Brontë

130. “To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.”

— Charlotte Brontë

131. “I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.”

— Charlotte Brontë

132. “I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.”

— Charlotte Brontë

133. “Rochester: My bride is here, because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?”

— Charlotte Brontë

134. “When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one’s heart.”

— Charlotte Brontë

135. “Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.”

— Charlotte Brontë

136. “Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure – you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.”

— Charlotte Brontë

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

— Charlotte Brontë

138. “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.”

— Charlotte Brontë

139. “I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?”

— Charlotte Brontë

140. “I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.”

— Charlotte Brontë

141. “If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.”

— Charlotte Brontë

142. “You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx.”

— Charlotte Brontë

143. “A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play;.”

— Charlotte Brontë

144. “It is not violence that best overcomes hate – nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.”

— Charlotte Brontë

145. “You transfix me quite.”

— Charlotte Brontë

146. “The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes, – and to speak.”

— Charlotte Brontë

147. “What the deuce is to do now?”

— Charlotte Brontë

148. “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.”

— Charlotte Brontë

149. “There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.”

— Charlotte Brontë

150. “No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.”

— Charlotte Brontë