Charlotte Bronte Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Men, Missing

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

• I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night. I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to meet his eye.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Night, Voice

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.128, Penguin

• To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true. (Mr Rochester to Jane)

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Heart, Character

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.213, Penguin

• The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Soul, Truthful

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.258, Penguin

• Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heartbreak, Prayer, Integrity

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.262, Penguin

• I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Eye, Expression

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

• Now it is not everybody, even amongst our respected friends and esteemed acquaintance, whom we like to have near us, whom we like to watch us, to wait on us, to approach us with the proximity of a nurse to a patient. It is not every friend whose eye is a light in a sickroom, whose presence is there a solace.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Light, Nurse

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.177, Xist Publishing

• Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Judging

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.145, Penguin

• 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

• When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Inspirational, Eye, Heart

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.253, Penguin

• Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss Ingram? None: and that you know. What love has she for me? None: as I have taken pains to prove; I caused a rumor to reach her that my fortune was not a third of what was supposed, and after that I presented myself to see the result; it was coldness both from her and her mother. I would not-I could not-marry Miss Ingram. You-you strange-you almost unearthly thing!-I love as my own flesh. You-poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are-I entreat to accept me as a husband.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Mother, Pain, Husband

  Jane Eyre ch. 23 (1847)

• 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

  Children, Eye, Boys

  Jane Eyre ch. 38 (1847)

• Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Grief, Eye, Strange

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.177, Everyman's Library

• Because when she failed, I saw how she might have succeeded. Arrows that continually glanced off from Mr. Rochester's breast and fell harmless at his feet, might, I knew, if shot by a surer hand, have quivered keen in his proud heart - have called love into his stern eye, and softness into his sardonic face, or better still, without weapons a silent conquest might have been won.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Eye, Hands

  Charlotte Bronte (2014). “Jane Eyre: Englische Originalausgabe”, p.199, Edition Lempertz

• So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence. You are passionate: I expected a scene of some kind. I was prepared for the hot rain of tears; only I wanted them to be shed on my breast: now a senseless floor has received them, or your drenched handkerchief. But I err: you have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose, then, that your heart has been weeping blood?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Rain, Eye, Heart

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Jane Eyre: Easyread Edition”, p.118, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it in forced, unnatural distance. I loved him well - too well not to smite out of my path even Jealousy herself, when she would have obstructed a kind farewell. A cordial word from his lips, or a gentle look from his eyes, would do me good, for all the span of life that remained to me; it would be comfort in the last strait of loneliness; I would take it - I would taste the elixir, and pride should not spill the cup.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Distance, Loneliness, Farewell

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.464, Xist Publishing

• Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Pride, Desire

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.235, Penguin

• As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Dream, Stars, Eye

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.106, Penguin

• Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly withdrawn, and the sound of what consoles must be silenced.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Eye, Ears, Sound

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.264, Xist Publishing

• To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break... I am ever tender and true.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Character, Eye, Fire

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.213, Penguin

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