Charlotte Bronte Quotes - Page 10

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• Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Luck, Caprice, Form

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.475, Everyman's Library

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• 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

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• I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

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  Mean, Vision, Stones

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.196, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.

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  Distance, Years, Understanding

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.16, Penguin

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• Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none

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  Wise, Thinking, Likes And Dislikes

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.33, Xist Publishing

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• There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.

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  Blood, Phrases, Honest Woman

  Charlotte Bronte (2006). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.258, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Do you like him much?' I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults.' Is he?' All boys are.

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  Caring, Boys, Use

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.33, Xist Publishing

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• Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations.

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  Heart, Hands, Giving

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Jane Eyre: Easyread Large Edition”, p.312, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.

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  Believe, Oddities, Perfect

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.27, Xist Publishing

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• I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.

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  Hate, Lying, School

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.34, Penguin

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• I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.

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  Clouds, Bird, Bars

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• Que me voulez-vous?' said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he kept his teeth clenched, and seemed registering to himself an inward vow that nothing earthly should wring from him a smile. My answer commenced uncompromisingly: - 'Monsieur,' I said, je veux l'impossible, des choses inouïes.

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  Teeth, Inward, Answers

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Edition”, p.116, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

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  Summer, Spring, Sunshine

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

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• [I]n his presence I thoroughly lived.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.355, Penguin

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• Jane Eyre "I desired more...than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

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  Pain, Helping, Blame

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• It is a long way off, sir" "From what Jane?" "From England and from Thornfield: and ___" "Well?" "From you, sir

  Charlotte Bronte

  Long, Way, England

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• I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:Hunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a flip.

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  Fighting, Gentleman, Ugly

  1847 Jane Eyre ch.17.

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• I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft, silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced - conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph _I_ can win.

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  Heart, Winning, Please Me

  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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• I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.

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  Flower, Hands, Wish

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.327, Xist Publishing

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• Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Love Is, Hatred, Dinner

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Real, Novelists, Study

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “The Professor: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.87, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Found You, Solitude, Half

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.256, Penguin

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• Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hideous, Jane, Knows

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.356, Penguin

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• Reader, I married him.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Classic, Married, Reader

  Jane Eyre ch. 38 (1847)

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• Reader, I literally married him.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Married, Reader

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