A biography for Charlotte Brontehasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.”
“I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.”
“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”
“Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.”
“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.”
“Look twice before you leap.”
“I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.”
“Better to be without logic than without feeling.”
“You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.”