More quotes by Charlotte Bronte

"I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me."
"The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely."
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."
"To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment."
"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."