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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
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
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
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
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[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
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[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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