Comprehensive information about Charlotte Bronte including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels are English literature standards. She wrote Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Bell. This educational Charlotte Bronte resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.
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As to the sufferers, whose sole inheritance was labour, and who had lost that inheritance - who could not get work, and consequently could not get wages, and consequently could not get bread - they were left to suffer on, perhaps inevitably left. It would not do to stop the progress of invention, to damage science by discouraging its improvements; the war could not be terminated; efficient relief could not be raised. There was no help then; so the unemployed underwent their destiny - ate the bread and drank the waters of affliction. Misery generates hate. These sufferers hated the machines which they believed took their bread from them; they hated the buildings which contained those machines; they hated the manufacturers who owned those buildings. Go to Quote / Comment
I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. Go to Quote / Comment
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself. Go to Quote / Comment
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. Go to Quote / Comment
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Go to Quote / Comment