Charlotte Bronte Quotes - Page 13

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• My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Might, Enough

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.264, Penguin

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• It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Patience, Smart, Evil

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.49, Penguin

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• You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Looks, World, Faces

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss Ingram? None: and that you know. What love has she for me? None: as I have taken pains to prove; I caused a rumor to reach her that my fortune was not a third of what was supposed, and after that I presented myself to see the result; it was coldness both from her and her mother. I would not-I could not-marry Miss Ingram. You-you strange-you almost unearthly thing!-I love as my own flesh. You-poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are-I entreat to accept me as a husband.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Mother, Pain, Husband

  Jane Eyre ch. 23 (1847)

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• No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sweet, Reflection, Past

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.261, Penguin

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• I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen: that I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Character, Vision, World

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• It is always the way of events in this life,...no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Moving, Voice, Events

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.205, Penguin

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• We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age— Are they withered in the sod?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Spring, Cutting, Air

  '19 December 1835'

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• Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Moments

  Charlotte Bronte, Sherri Browning Erwin (2010). “Jane Slayre”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• Monsieur, sit down; listen to me. I am not a heathen, I am not hard-hearted, I am not unchristian, I am not dangerous, as they tell you; I would not trouble your faith; you believe in God and Christ and the Bible, and so do I.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, Trouble, Christ

  "Villette". Book by Charlotte Bronte, Chapter XXXVI: The Apple of Discord, 1853.

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• You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sphinx

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something of your own to bestow it on?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Want, Hollowness, Given

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.267, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all those about us share in our sufferings. The ills of the soul one can hide, but those which attack the body and destroy the faculties cannot be concealed.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Soul, Suffering, Body

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• They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Should Have, Suffering, Firsts

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.237, Everyman's Library

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• On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Country, Patriotism, World

  Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Professor”, p.211, Trajectory Inc

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• The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as a proceeding which, however, well meant, is weak and futile. I cannot tell what good it does - what feeling it spares - what horror it conceals.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Practice, Feelings, Doe

  Emily Bronte, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë (1851). “Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey: In Two Volumes”, p.16

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• I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Please Me, Belief, Easy

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.267, Everyman's Library

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• I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Love, Romantic, Self

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Grade 7: Jane Eyre”, p.80, Orient Blackswan

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• If you like poetry let it be first rate, Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith Pope (if you will though I don't admire him), Scott, Byron, Campbell, Wordsworth and Southey. Now Ellen don't be startled at the names of Shakespeare, and Byron. Both these were great Men and their works are like themselves, You will know how to chuse the good and avoid the evil, the finest
  passages are always the purest, the bad are invariably revolting you will never wish to read them over twice.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Men, Names, Evil

  "Charlotte Bronte: Selected Letters". Book edited by Margaret Smith and Janet Gezari, September 9, 2010.

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• If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Nature, Majority, Different

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.66, Variocity

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• My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Wise, Son, Night

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “The Professor”, p.117, Charlotte Bronte

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• you may fume and fidget as you please: but this is the best plan to pursue with you, I am certain. I like you more than I can say; but I’ll not sink into a bathos of sentiment: and with this needle of repartee I’ll keep you from the edge of the gulf too; and, moreover, maintain by its pungent aid that distance between you and myself most conducive to our real mutual advantage.

  Charlotte Bronte

  I Like You, Real, Distance

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.224, Penguin

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• Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Association, Amalgamation, Grows

  1853 Villette, ch.25.

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• The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sight, Cities, Sound

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

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• I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Pope, Infallibility, Boast

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.842, Everyman's Library

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