Top 31 Quotes by Charlotte Bronte

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

Who has words at the right moment?

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

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

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.

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

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

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

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.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.