“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
— Charlotte Brontë“It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.”
— Charlotte Brontë“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”
— Charlotte Brontë“Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.”
— Charlotte Brontë“I wait, with some impatience in my pulse, but no doubt in my breast.”
— Charlotte BrontëLife appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
— Charlotte Brontë“Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”
— Charlotte Brontë