Charlotte Bronte Quotes - Page 4

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Thinking, Guests

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.115, Penguin

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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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• 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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• You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --

  Charlotte Bronte

  Writing, Sleep, Giving

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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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• I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve about. We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest. I leave no one to regret me much: I have only a father; and he is lately married, and will not miss me. By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Regret, Father, Grieving

  Charlotte Bronte, Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Partner: Jane Eyre & Anna Karenina”, p.50, Random House

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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.

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

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sex, Flirty, Flirting

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• I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Monotony, Feels, Monotonous

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.95, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Men, Ideas, Different

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Men, Race, Earth

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.61, Penguin

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• It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Lapses, Answers, Tongue

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

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• Emily suffers no more from pain or weakness now. She will never suffer more in this world. She is gone after a hard, short conflict...Yes there is no Emily in time or on earth now. Yesterday we put her poor, wasted, mortal frame quietly under the chancel pavement. We are very calm at present. Why shoud we be otherwise? The anguish of seeing her suffer is over; the spectacle of the pains of death is gone by; the funeral day is past. We feel she is at peace. No need now to trouble for the hard frost and the keen wind. Emily does not feel them.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Pain, Past, Yesterday

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• What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sweet, Madness, Delusion

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.352, Penguin

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