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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with C >> Quotes By Charlotte Bronte |
| Quote #1: | "It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity they must have action and they will make it if they cannot find it." |
| Quote #2: | "No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure." |
| Quote #3: | "Look twice before you leap." |
| Quote #4: | "Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves." |
| Quote #5: | "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 there, firm as weeds among rocks." |
| Quote #6: | "The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself." |
| Quote #7: | "I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward." |
| Quote #8: | "If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own." |
| Quote #9: | "Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition." |
| Quote #10: | "A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow." |
| Quote #11: | "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." |
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