Charlotte Brontë Quotes

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

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!

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

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

If you like poetry let it be first-rate; Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith, Pope (if you will, though I don't admire him), Scott, Byron, Camp[b]ell, Wordsworth, and Southey. Now don't be startled at the names of Shakespeare and Byron. Both these were great men, and their works are like themselves. You will know how to choose the good and avoid the evil; the finest passages are always the purest, the bad are invariably revolting, you will never wish to read them over twice.

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

You ask about Queen Victoria's visit to Brussels. I saw her for an instant flashing through the Rue Royale in a carriage and six, surrounded by soldiers. She was laughing and talking very gaily. She looked a little stout, vivacious lady, very plainly dressed, not much dignity or pretension about her. The Belgians liked her very well on the whole. They said she enlivened the sombre court of King Leopold, which is usually as gloomy as a conventicle.

What is this Hebrew Christ? To me unknown,In my eyes makes Olympian glory dim.