Charlotte Bronte Quotes - Page 10

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• When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Reason, Should, Strikes

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Degradation, Charity, Hunger

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.270, Everyman's Library

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• I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand - they only. Know this at last.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Hands, Independence

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.314, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Good Night, Lips, Left

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.150, Penguin

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• I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Somewhere Under, Feelings, Ribs

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• Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said, whispering mysteriously.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Whispering, Fairy, Said

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.219, Penguin

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• Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Talking, Alarms, May

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.241, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Prodigious was the amount of life I lived that morning.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Morning, Prodigious, Amount

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.49, Xist Publishing

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• Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Insults You, Necks

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.216, Penguin

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• Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Lasts, Said

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.197, Penguin

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• Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sympathy, Hate, Mad

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.246, Penguin

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• The word book acted as a transient stimulus

  Charlotte Bronte

  Book, Stimulus, Transient

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.20, Penguin

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• When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large, brilliant, and black.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Children, Eye, Boys

  Jane Eyre ch. 38 (1847)

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• I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Mean, Vision, Stones

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.196, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Luck, Caprice, Form

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.475, Everyman's Library

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• As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Dream, Stars, Eye

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.106, Penguin

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• Jane Austin was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete and rather insensible (not senseless) woman. If this is heresy, I cannot help it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Austin, Helping, Sensible

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• Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Real, Novelists, Study

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “The Professor: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.87, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Because when she failed, I saw how she might have succeeded. Arrows that continually glanced off from Mr. Rochester's breast and fell harmless at his feet, might, I knew, if shot by a surer hand, have quivered keen in his proud heart - have called love into his stern eye, and softness into his sardonic face, or better still, without weapons a silent conquest might have been won.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Eye, Hands

  Charlotte Bronte (2014). “Jane Eyre: Englische Originalausgabe”, p.199, Edition Lempertz

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• Jane Eyre "I desired more...than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Pain, Helping, Blame

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• Everyone else is just cocktails.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Cocktails

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• I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Flower, Hands, Wish

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.327, Xist Publishing

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• Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hideous, Jane, Knows

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.356, Penguin

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• There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Blood, Phrases, Honest Woman

  Charlotte Bronte (2006). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.258, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Lying, School

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.34, Penguin

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