The Brontë Sisters Quotes

“It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Brontë Sisters : Complete Novels: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Villette (NTMC Classics)

“If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse.  When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should—so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Brontë Sisters : Complete Novels: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Villette (NTMC Classics)