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I am unhappy - very unhappy, for other things. — Charlotte Bronte

When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large, brilliant, and black. — Charlotte Bronte

As far as my experience of matrimony goes
I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself. — Charlotte Bronte

The noble and high born cannot endure grief. — Charlotte Bronte

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. — Charlotte Bronte

Some say once a word is said it's dead. I say it just begins to live that day. — Emily Bronte

But no brutality disgusted her: I suppose she has an innate admiration for it, if only her precious person were secure from injury! — Emily Bronte

I am Heathcliff! — Emily Bronte

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator. — Charlotte Bronte

But to-night I am resolved to be at ease; to dismiss what importunes, and recall what pleases. — Charlotte Bronte

Come in! come in !' he sobbed.
'Cathy, do come. Oh do -once more! Oh! my heart's darling! hear me this time - Catherine, at last! — Emily Bronte

Thinking sure could get a fellow in a lot of trouble. Almost as much as opening his big gabber and sticking his muddy foot in it. — Gillian Bronte Adams

I never liked long walks — Charlotte Bronte

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. — Charlotte Bronte

I believe it was an inspiration rather than a temptation — Charlotte Bronte

I mun hev' my wage, and I mun goa! I hed aimed to dee wheare I'd sarved fur sixty year; — Emily Bronte

For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial. — Charlotte Bronte

...sick of mankind and their disgusting ways... — Anne Bronte

A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth — Charlotte Bronte

Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be. — Anne Bronte

That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, and felt that it was true. — Anne Bronte

It is time some one undertook to rehumanise you — Charlotte Bronte

Ill-Success failed to crush us: the mere effort to succeed had given a wonderful zest to existence; it must be pursued. — Charlotte Bronte

I and my pupil dined — Charlotte Bronte

I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities. — Charlotte Bronte

Mine was the game where the player cannot lose and may win. — Charlotte Bronte

It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or bemoaning the mortifications, of feelings. — Charlotte Bronte

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

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. — Charlotte Bronte

grovelling, mole-eyed blockhead — Charlotte Bronte

Sententious sage! so it is: but I swear by my household gods not — Charlotte Bronte

Because I want to read your countenance - turn! — Charlotte Bronte

Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime. — Charlotte Bronte

I had enjoyed so much bliss lately that i imagined my fortune had passed its meridian and must now decline. — Charlotte Bronte

You examine me Miss Eyre, " said he: "Do you think me handsome? — Charlotte Bronte

Jane, I don't like cavillers or questioners; besides, there is something truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that manner. — Charlotte Bronte

My heart is mute--my heart is mute — Charlotte Bronte

[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. — Anne Bronte

He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw. — Charlotte Bronte

You have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness! — Anne Bronte

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. — Charlotte Bronte

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well! — Charlotte Bronte

It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them. — Anne Bronte

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. — Charlotte Bronte

The whole world awake and wild with joy. — Emily Bronte

It called her by name. Birdie. Songkeeper. Beloved. You are mine. — Gillian Bronte Adams

I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes. — Anne Bronte

God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us. — Anne Bronte

It is a long way off, sir"
"From what Jane?"
"From England and from Thornfield: and _"
"Well?"
"From you, sir — Charlotte Bronte

They outnumbered me, and I was worsted and under their feet; but, as yet, I was not dead. — Charlotte Bronte

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide. — Emily Bronte

...I ardently wished to die — Charlotte Bronte

I'll not do anything, though you should swear your tongue out, except what I please! — Emily Bronte

He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. — Charlotte Bronte

My people prepare for a battle we cannot win in a war intended for our destruction. Why should I risk their safety to rescue a legend? — Gillian Bronte Adams

Everyone else is just cocktails. — Charlotte Bronte

You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death! — Emily Bronte

Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are the attributes of an angel. — Charlotte Bronte

What do I want? A new place, in a new house, amongst new faces, under new circumstances. — Charlotte Bronte

door, and locking it behind them. — Charlotte Bronte

If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do. — Anne Bronte

That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure. — Charlotte Bronte

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery. — Charlotte Bronte

It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever - bless them, dear creatures! — Anne Bronte

Read the New Testament, and observe what Christ says, and how he acts-make his world your rule, and his conduct your example. — Charlotte Bronte

He felt the greatness and goodness of his purpose so sincerely: others who heard him plead for it, could not but feel it too. — Charlotte Bronte

I am the only being whose doom no tongue would ask, no eye would mourn. — Charlotte Bronte

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. — James A. Michener

It was a strange way of killing, not by inches, but by fractions of hairbreadths, to beguile me with the spectre of a hope, through eighteen years! — Emily Bronte

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. — Emily Bronte

Breakfast was over, and none had breakfasted. — Charlotte Bronte

I am not romantic. I am stripped of romance as bare as the white tenters in that field are of cloth. — Charlotte Bronte

With what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged! — Charlotte Bronte

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

Prodigious was the amount of life I lived that morning. — Charlotte Bronte

I often think it would be such luxury to go mad, and not have to worry about anything. Others would have to worry for me, about me. — Charlotte Bronte

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

Of him to whom less is given, less will be required, but our utmost exertions are required of us all. — Anne Bronte

It would take a great deal to crush me — Charlotte Bronte

Terror made me cruel . . . — Emily Bronte

Such absolute impenetrability is past comprehension — Charlotte Bronte

I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess. — Jamaica Kincaid

If Saul could have had you for his David, the evil spirit would have been exorcised without the aid of the harp. — Charlotte Bronte

I will walk where my own nature would be leading. — Emily Bronte

Donnez-moi la main! I see we worship the same God, in the same spirit, though by different rites. — Charlotte Bronte

I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture. — Laura Marling

God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. — Anne Bronte

And from the midst of cheerless gloom
I passed to bright unclouded day. — Emily Bronte

Well, let them seize on all they can;
One treasure still is mine,
A heart that loves to think on thee,
And feels the worth of thine. — Anne Bronte

And who can be ill natured and bad tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference? — Emily Bronte

You think all existence lapses in a quiet flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away — Charlotte Bronte

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

If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it. — Emily Bronte

I am, sir. It is my way - it always was my way, by instinct - ever to meet the brief with brevity, the direct with plainness. — Charlotte Bronte

You transfix me quite. — Charlotte Bronte

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies. — Emily Bronte

I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me — Charlotte Bronte

governess was not in yet; then, — Anne Bronte

Fortune, how fickle and how vain thou art, — Patrick Branwell Bronte

You are ignorant of the duties you undertake in marrying ... — Emily Bronte