Charlotte Bronte Quotes & Sayings

31 most famous Charlotte Bronte quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She was an English novelist who passed away on 31 March, 1855.

“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.”

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

“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.”

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

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

“You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.”

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

“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.”

“Better to be without logic than without feeling.”

“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.”