QUOTES BY Charlotte Brontë

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.

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

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

We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair;We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age— Are they withered in the sod?

But two miles more, and then we rest! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the brightness of the West Will light us on our devious way; Sit then, awhile, here in this wood— So total is the solitude, We safely may delay.

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

It seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance: something spoke out of me over which I had no control.

I am glad you are no relation of mine. I will never call you aunt as long as I live. I will never come to see you when I am grown up; and if any asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick.

What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart... Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.