Charlotte Brontë
10 quotes
“I have twice seen Macready act; once in Macbeth and once in Othello . I astounded a dinner”
“Yesterday I went for the second time to the Crystal Palace. We remained in it about three hours, and I must say I was more struck with it on this occasion than at my first visit. It is a wonderful place”
“I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. 15 January, 1849. As quoted in Elizabeth Gaskell The life of Charlotte Brontë (1870), p. 285”
“real experience is perennially interesting, and to all men.”
“The letters of Charlotte Brontë (edited by Margaret Smith), Vol. I: 1829”
“If you like poetry let it be first”
“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? Jane Eyre”
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Carolyn Warner (1992), page 135”
“I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance”
“I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends! In response to George Henry Lewes (LL, II, v, 272); Miriam Farris Allott (1974), The Brontës, the critical heritage, page 160;”