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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
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
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
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
[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
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
"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