Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

Charlotte Bronte Novelist

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: England
  • Born: Apr 21, 1816
  • Died: Mar 31, 1855

Charlotte BrontÄ was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three BrontÄ sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. She published her best known novel, Jane Eyre, under the pen name Currer Bell.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. God, men & success

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. death

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. life

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

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. nature

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There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. 3 thoughts from John Millington Synge

3 thoughts from John Millington Synge

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. 28 views from William Butler Yeats

28 views from William Butler Yeats

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. 27 quotes from Dave Barry

27 quotes from Dave Barry

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. 74 sayings from Winston Churchill

74 sayings from Winston Churchill