Quotes from Charlotte Bronte

The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only.

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.

Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day.

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

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

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

The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.

Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.

I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.

I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

Adversity is a good school.

Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations.

Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.

Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.

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

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

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.

I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.

Let your performance do the thinking.

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