A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
Charlotte Bronte

Better to be without logic than without feeling.
Charlotte Bronte

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Charlotte Bronte

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
Charlotte Bronte

Conventionality is not morality.
Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
Charlotte Bronte

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

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
Charlotte Bronte

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
Charlotte Bronte

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
Charlotte Bronte


I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Charlotte Bronte

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

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
Charlotte Bronte

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

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
Charlotte Bronte

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 Bronte

It is 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 Bronte

Let your performance do the thinking.
Charlotte Bronte

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Charlotte Bronte

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
Charlotte Bronte