Quotation:
"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns."
More quotes from: Charlotte Bronte
- "A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. "
- "Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. "
- "Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too ..."
- "If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for ..."
- "It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they ..."
- "Let your performance do the thinking. "
- "Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. "
- "Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. "
- "Look twice before you leap. "
- "Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. "
- "One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a ..."
- "Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil ..."
- "There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. "
- "You - poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are - I entreat ..."
- "You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead ..."


