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The Brontë Sisters Quotes — 17 Timeless Lines

17 quotes from The Brontë Sisters, arranged the way they appear in Quote 2048: from the lightest line on the 2 tile to the crown quote on the 2048 tile, and on to 131072 in the app.

All quotes come from public-domain works or traditional proverbs; attributions were checked against their sources.

1. 2

   It is foolish to wish for beauty

   — Anne Brontë

   Original · EnglishIt is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others.

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2. 4

   Terror made me cruel

   — Emily Brontë

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3. 8

   Flowers gathered cease to please

   — Charlotte Brontë

   Original · EnglishI like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please.

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4. 16

   Riches I hold in light esteem

   — Emily Brontë

   Original · EnglishRiches I hold in light esteem, / And Love I laugh to scorn

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5. 32

   I'd rather be happy than dignified

   — Charlotte Brontë

   Original · EnglishI have not much pride under such circumstances: I would always rather be happy than dignified

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6. 64

   All our talents increase in the using

   — Anne Brontë

   Original · Englishall our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise

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7. 128

   Life is too short to nurse animosity

   — Charlotte Brontë

   Original · EnglishLife appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

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8. 256

   Grasp no thorn, crave no rose

   — Anne Brontë

   Original · EnglishBut he that dares not grasp the thorn / Should never crave the rose.

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9. 512

   Love is a wild rose; friendship, holly

   — Emily Brontë

   Original · EnglishLove is like the wild rose-briar; / Friendship like the holly-tree.

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10. 1024

    We must have action, or we make it

    — Charlotte Brontë

    Original · EnglishIt 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.

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11. 2048👑 Crown quote

    I am no bird; no net ensnares me

    — Charlotte Brontë

    Original · EnglishI am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will

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12. Levels 4096–131072 continue in the app.
13. 4096

    His soul and mine are the same

    — Emily Brontë

    Original · EnglishWhatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same

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14. 8192

    A book's worth is not its author's sex

    — Anne Brontë

    Original · Englishif a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be

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15. 16384

    Events never match expectations

    — Charlotte Brontë

    Original · EnglishLife is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

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16. 32768

    Eyes and ears are the heart's inlets

    — Anne Brontë

    Original · EnglishKeep a guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlet

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17. 65536

    The heart hides treasures in silence

    — Charlotte Brontë

    Original · EnglishThe human heart has hidden treasures, / In secret kept, in silence sealed

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18. 131072

    No unquiet sleep in that quiet earth

    — Emily Brontë

    Original · Englishwondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth

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