Charlotte Bronte never said that
The Ali mentioned in the update on this post is me. There are a lot of things you could misquote to me and get away with it, but I don’t like your chances on Jane Eyre.
One doesn’t like to be the internet policeman who points these things out, but after searching several e-texts, I knew it definitely wasn’t Charlotte Bronte, and I figured that Austin Kleon was the sort of blogger who’d like to know. And I quite liked the quote, so wanted to be sure where it came from.
What is curious is how something morphs around the interwebs from a Mormon President into Charlotte Bronte!