It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.
("Jane Eyre")
More Quotes from Charlotte Bronte:
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.Charlotte Bronte
To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.
Charlotte Bronte
His idea was still with me, because it was not a vapor sunshine could disperse, nor a sand-traced effigy storms could wash away; it was a name graven on a tablet, fated to last as long as the marble it inscribed. The craving to know what had become of him followed me everywhere.
Charlotte Bronte
I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.
Charlotte Bronte
I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?
Charlotte Bronte
Good-night, Dr. John you are good, you are beautiful but you are not mine. Good-night, and God bless you
Charlotte Brontë
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