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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

Never was the distinction between charity and mercy better exemplified than in her. — 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

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

The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him — Charlotte Bronte

Your station is in my heart. — Charlotte Bronte

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. — Charlotte Bronte

I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs. — Charlotte Bronte

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

Signs may be but the sympathies of nature with man. — Charlotte 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

A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth — Charlotte 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 thought not. And so you were waiting for your people when you sat on that stile?" "For whom, sir? — Charlotte Bronte

I and my pupil dined — Charlotte Bronte

no net ensnares me — Charlotte Bronte

. . . still we are none of us perfect . . . — 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

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

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

It is not violence that best overcomes hate
nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury. — Charlotte Bronte

grovelling, mole-eyed blockhead — Charlotte Bronte

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings. — 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

I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me. — 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

Lingerer, my brain is on fire with impatience; and you tarry so long! — Charlotte Bronte

Perhaps the less said on that subject the better, Mr. Brocklehurst. — Charlotte Bronte

Endurance over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition. — Charlotte Bronte

Good-night, my- He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me. — Charlotte Bronte

...but I believed in the existence of other and more vivid kinds of goodness, and what I believed in I wished to behold. — Charlotte Bronte

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

Let your performance do the thinking. — Charlotte Bronte

Nobody in particular is to blame, that I can see, for the state in which things are ... — Charlotte Bronte

Farewell!" was the cry of my heart as I left him. Despair added, "Farewell for ever! — Charlotte Bronte

Your will shall decide your destiny. — Charlotte Bronte

Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius. — Charlotte Bronte

If there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this house could yield it ... — Charlotte Bronte

Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear. — Charlotte Bronte

Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers — Charlotte Bronte

And it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it ... — Charlotte Bronte

His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows. — Charlotte Bronte

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

I see," he said," the mountain will never be brought to Mahomet, so all you can do is to aid Mahomet to go to the mountain ... — Charlotte Bronte

The floodgates of tears are opened, and they would rush out if you spoke much. — Charlotte Bronte

[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives who would not remove themselves. — Elizabeth Hardwick

He fumed like a bottled storm. — Charlotte Bronte

I scorned the insinuation of helplessness and distraction, shook off his hand, and began to walk about again. — Charlotte Bronte

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. — Charlotte Bronte

Your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me ... — Charlotte Bronte

There's no use in weeping,
Though we are condemned to part:
There's such a thing as keeping,
A remembrance in one's heart ... — Charlotte Bronte

We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible. — Charlotte Bronte

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

It would take a great deal to crush me — Charlotte 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

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery. — Charlotte 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 ardently wished to die — Charlotte Bronte

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

Everyone else is just cocktails. — Charlotte 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

To me, he was in reality become no longer flesh, but marble; his eye was a cold, bright, blue gem; his tongue a speaking instrument - nothing more. — Charlotte Bronte

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

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

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

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

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

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