Quotes About The Bronte Sisters

#1. I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

Laura Marling

#2. I'm glad nobody has asked me to adapt 'Wuthering Heights' because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes a mess of it. I think the Bronte Sisters are mad.

Andrew Davies

#3. I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.

Kate Klise

#4. Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters.

J.A. Konrath

#5. I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.

Mallory Ortberg

#6. When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

Luigi Pirandello

#7. But I'm not crazy." The woman laughed. "That's what they all say." "All right then, I am crazy, but what does that mean?

Paulo Coelho

#8. I was the biggest liar for no reason, and then as I got older, I thought, 'Why am I lying to everybody?' I would hear other people lie and be like, 'You sound so stupid.' So then I would just change my lies. The only person I lie to is my little sister, when I steal her clothes.

Kendall Jenner

#9. The reason we get angry when someone makes fun of you is cause you doubt your ability to do something

Todd Williams

#10. You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too.

Anne Bronte

#11. The assumption that being gay or black necessarily harms the self-worth of all who fit this category has a patronizing dimension, because it neglects consideration of the agency that persons exercise in respect of imposed identity.

Michael Kenny

#12. Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children's brains, but strangely impressive.

Charlotte Bronte

#13. My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world - the ... affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other.

Charlotte Bronte

#14. 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' was this role that utterly fell into my lap and changed my life.

Tim Blake Nelson

#15. All John Reed's violent tyrannies, all his sisters' proud indifference, all his mother's aversion, all the servants' partiality, turned up in my disturbed mind like a dark deposit in a turbid well.

Charlotte Bronte

#16. I call that creativity," Orville said. "The purpose of literature is to teach you how to THINK, not how to be practical. Learning to discover the connective tissue between seemingly unrelated events is the only way we are equipped to understand patterns in the real world.

Catherine Lowell

#17. Winning is great but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

Wilma Rudolph

#18. And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

Jeff Daniels

#19. You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

Charlotte Bronte

#20. What a fool you must be, said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

Anne Bronte

#21. What can you mean? It may be of no moment to you; you have sisters and don't care for a cousin; but I had nobody; and now three relations, - or two, if you don't choose to be counted, - are born into my world full-grown. I say again, I am glad!

Charlotte Bronte

#22. I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.

Rachel Joyce

#23. Gentle, soft dream, nestling in my arms now, you will fly, too, as your sisters have all fled before you: but kiss me before you go
embrace me, Jane.

Charlotte Bronte

#24. When words, half love, all tenderness,
Were hourly heard, as hourly spoken,
When the long, sunny days of bliss
Only by moonlight nights were broken.

The Bronte Sisters

#25. The next president of the United States needs to figure one thing out quickly - how to be commander in chief. And I think I could do that.

Lindsey Graham