Charlotte Bronte Quotes - Page 4

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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.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Single, Lonely, Loneliness

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• I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Dream, Years, Gone

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• I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Freedom, Women, Equality

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

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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.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Strong, Powerful, Spring

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

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• I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Mind, Want, Easy

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.220, Penguin

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

  Charlotte Bronte

  Enemy, My Friends, I Can

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• Misery generates hate.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Misery, Unhappiness

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

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• Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Stars, Loneliness, Wings

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.56, Xist Publishing

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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.

  Charlotte Bronte

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

  Charlotte Bronte

  Friendship, Sake, Foundation

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• Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Demand, Combination, Circumstances

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.116, Penguin

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

  Charlotte Bronte

  Mind, Library, Bliss

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

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• Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heartbreak, Saying Goodbye, Thinking

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Husband, Earth, Language

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte, Updated Edition”, p.5, Infobase Publishing

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• Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through good and ill; Thankful for all that God has given, Fixing his firmest hopes on heaven; Knowing that earthly joys decay, But hoping through the darkest day.

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  Blessing, Knowing, Joy

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.141, The Floating Press

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• A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Play, Scene, Chapters

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.80, Penguin

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• The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Encouragement, Heart, Night

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.109, Xist Publishing

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• Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Morning, Spring, Night

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Self, Giving, Soul

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.166, Penguin

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• Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Brother, Exercise, Men

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Force, Gentleness

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.340, Penguin

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• Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sex, Flirty, Flirting

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• Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Spring, Night, Gourds

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• Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.

  Charlotte Bronte

  One Day, Earth, Firsts

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.475, Xist Publishing

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• I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, I Believe, Villette

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Edition”, p.171, ReadHowYouWant.com

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