Charlotte Bronte Quotes - Page 10

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• There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sorrow, Vision, Arms

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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 must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.' - Jane Eyre

  Charlotte Bronte

  Thinking, Forever, Breathe

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Kindness, Home, Rochester

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.202, 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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• It is a long way off, sir" "From what Jane?" "From England and from Thornfield: and ___" "Well?" "From you, sir

  Charlotte Bronte

  Long, Way, England

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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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• Everyone else is just cocktails.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Cocktails

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• Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none

  Charlotte Bronte

  Wise, Thinking, Likes And Dislikes

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.33, Xist Publishing

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• I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, Oddities, Perfect

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.27, Xist Publishing

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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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• He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Saws, Firsts, Recognise

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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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• [I]n his presence I thoroughly lived.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.355, Penguin

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• I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft, silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced - conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph _I_ can win.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Winning, Please Me

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.213, 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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