Charlotte Bronte Quotes

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

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

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

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

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Charlotte Bronte

Look twice before you leap.

Charlotte Bronte

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

Charlotte Bronte