The Letters of Charlotte Brontë Quotes

“But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë

“I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë

“Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë

“The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upwards, take an interest, believe to be natural, or wish to imitate: were I obliged to copy these characters, I would simply -- not write at all. Were I obliged to copy any former novelist, even the greatest, even Scott, in anything , I would not write -- Unless I have something of my own to say, and a way of my own to say it in, I have no business to publish; unless I can look beyond the greatest Masters, and study Nature herself, I have no right to paint; unless I can have the courage to use the language of Truth in preference to the jargon of Conventionality, I ought to be silent.”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë

“It would take a great deal to crush me”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë