Charlotte Bronte Quotes

But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.

Charlotte Bronte

• Resist
• Punish
• Unjustly

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• One day, when I was 33, I shifted. I suddenly saw acting as a higher calling. I understood that my goal was to serve the play. And I realized if an actor can make audiences' hearts resonate or make them question their values - that's an important thing to do!

  

  Laila Robins
  • Important
  • Question
  • Day

• I think you learn something from everybody that you've worked with. I really learned how to behave on set through the people that I worked with, like the importance of being on time and the importance of being professional. I don't bring my cell phone on set; I leave it in my trailer.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Time
  • Professional

• Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

  

  Quintilian
  • Men
  • Money
  • Change

• 'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Existence

• We've seen with Brexit and other things that there's a dark impulse to be petulant and frustrated with complicated solutions.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Dark

• We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • History
  • Humanity

• I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

  

  Joe Pantoliano
  • Effort
  • Collaboration
  • Matrix

• I'm not a good person to have as an enemy; say nice things about me.

  

  Janice Dickinson
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Enemy

• Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.

  

  Bill Maher
  • Deep
  • Pool

• I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Totalitarian
  • Martyrdom

• My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme: how our country flourished, how many millions of tons of steel we produced, how happy we all were, how we trusted our government, and what bright perspectives were unfolding in front of us. I assume you did not propose me for this office so that I, too, would lie to you.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Different
  • Country
  • Happy

• I remember sitting in my room and thinking of where it all went wrong and how I ended up losing control of everything, and I realized I hadn't asked myself one question: And then what? That was my most important lesson. I learned to think about the consequences before the action and that saves me, to this day, from a lot of trouble. If you play it down the line, you'll start making better choices.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Important

• It's going to be hard. But I think that when we are in tough environments, it helps us focus more and it helps us concentrate. We're looking forward to it. We are playing with a lot of confidence right now and we believe in each other more than ever.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Believe
  • Focus
  • Confidence

• Generally, I think my work has so much influence because of its reasonableness.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Work
  • Influence
  • Reasonableness

• Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Children
  • History
  • Beauty

• Failure is not a disgrace if you have sincerely done your best.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Done
  • Failure
  • Disgrace

• I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Bad

• My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre to plant from plant to galaxy. My works are the irrigation veins of this universal fluid. Through them ascend the ancestral sap, the original beliefs, the primordial accumulations, the unconscious thoughts that animate the world

  

  Ana Mendieta
  • Art
  • Energy
  • Belief

• But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Resist
  • Punish
  • Unjustly