Charlotte Bronte Quotes - Page 8

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• I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Writing, Helping

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

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• I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, Silence, Waiting

  "Jane Eyre". Book by Charlotte Bronte, Jane (Ch. 28), October 16, 1847.

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• [O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Long, Shining, Beam

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• Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Years, England, Clergy

  Shirley ch. 1 (1849)

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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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• flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Would Be, Flattery, Vain

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• The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Perfect, Divine, Should

  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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• 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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• Reader, I literally married him.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Married, Reader

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• The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes,--and to speak.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Grief, Struggle, And Love

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

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• Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Pain, Ice, Veins

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.222, Penguin

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• I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Romance, Way

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• Conventionality is not morality.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Wisdom, Fun, Motherhood

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

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• There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Possibility, Walks

  Jane Eyre ch. 1 (1847)

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• Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Personality, Cheerful, Matter

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  I Love You, Beauty, Love You

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.212, Penguin

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• Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Crush, Peace, Revenge

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.26, Variocity

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• 'My bride is here,' Rochester said , again drawing me to him, 'because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?'

  Charlotte Bronte

  Will You Marry Me, Rochester, Equal

  "Jane Eyre".

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• God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, Optimistic, Heart

  Charlotte Bronte (2006). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.35, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Punishment, Affection, Natural

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• ... and she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours and you are mine; and we shall leave Earth and make our own Heaven yonder.'

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hands, Heaven, Gold

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.219, Penguin

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• What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  People, Despise, Knows

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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.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Love, Strong, Angel

  Charlotte Bronte (2015). “Jane Eyre, an Autobiography: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.395, 谷月社

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• We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

  Charlotte Bronte

  God, Nature, Night

  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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• If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Wicked, Guilt

  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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