Charlotte Bronte Quotes - Page 3

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• Make my happiness--I will make yours.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Charlotte Bronte, Wayne Josephson (2009). “Jane Eyre (Readable Classics)”, p.182, Chadwick Publishing

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• Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

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  Missing, Poison, Dread

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

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  Eye, Soul, Truthful

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.258, Penguin

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• Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

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  Demand, Maids, Occupation

  1849 Shirley, ch.22.

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• You transfix me quite.

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  Charlotte Bronte (2011). “Jane Eyre (Movie Tie-in Edition)”, p.651, Vintage

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• Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Misery generates hate.

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  Hate, Misery, Unhappiness

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

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• The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

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  Single, Lonely, Loneliness

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• Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

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  High Heels, Giving, Rope

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• Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

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  Self, Independence, Lasts

  'Jane Eyre' (2nd ed., 1848) preface

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• The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

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  Narrators, Tongue, Listeners

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.165, Penguin

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• It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

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  Thank You, Doe, Answers

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.81, Penguin

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• To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

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  Thinking, Animated, Weariness

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.366, Penguin

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• While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!

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  Existence, Enjoyed

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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• I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.

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  Waiting, Sincerity, Theory

  "Charlotte Brontë: the self conceived". p. 235. Book by Helene Moglen, 1984.

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• His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.

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  Mind, Library, Bliss

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Edition”, p.201, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius.

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  Sex, Genius, Limits

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• True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

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  Feelings, Enthusiasm, Flash

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• If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

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  Friendship, Sake, Foundation

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• I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

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  Self Esteem, Being Single, Self Reliance

  Charlotte Bronte (2015). “Jane Eyre, an Autobiography: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.398, 谷月社

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• I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.

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  Strong, Powerful, Spring

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go to Ireland, with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly.

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  Fashion, Distance, Heart

  "Fictional character: Mr. Rochester". "Jane Eyre", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!

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  Enemy, My Friends, I Can

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• To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break... I am ever tender and true.

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  Character, Eye, Fire

  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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• He made me love him without looking at me.

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  Made, Jane

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.145, Penguin

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