Charlotte Bronte Quotes - Page 4

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• Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sex, Flirty, Flirting

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• I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Monotony, Feels, Monotonous

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.95, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.

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  Men, Ideas, Different

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Inexperience, Youth, Blind

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.

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  Strong, Powerful, Spring

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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• I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Waiting, Sincerity, Theory

  "Charlotte Brontë: the self conceived". p. 235. Book by Helene Moglen, 1984.

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• Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

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  Spring, Night, Gourds

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• I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Freedom, Women, Equality

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.66, Variocity

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• I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.

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  Believe, I Believe, Villette

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Edition”, p.171, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --

  Charlotte Bronte

  Writing, Sleep, Giving

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• I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.

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  Dream, Years, Gone

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• What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sweet, Madness, Delusion

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.352, Penguin

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• True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Feelings, Enthusiasm, Flash

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• Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.

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  Stars, Loneliness, Wings

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.56, Xist Publishing

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• 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.

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  Heartbreak, Remembrance, Use

  Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Jane Bronte (2012). “The Bronte Sisters: Selected Poems”, p.46, Routledge

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• Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Men, Race, Earth

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.61, Penguin

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• Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sleep, Genuine, Tact

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.684, Everyman's Library

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• Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

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  Force, Gentleness

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.340, Penguin

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• You transfix me quite.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Charlotte Bronte (2011). “Jane Eyre (Movie Tie-in Edition)”, p.651, Vintage

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• I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Break Up, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  "Wuthering Heights". Book by Emily Bronte, www.theguardian.com. December 1847.

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

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  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

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• Emily suffers no more from pain or weakness now. She will never suffer more in this world. She is gone after a hard, short conflict...Yes there is no Emily in time or on earth now. Yesterday we put her poor, wasted, mortal frame quietly under the chancel pavement. We are very calm at present. Why shoud we be otherwise? The anguish of seeing her suffer is over; the spectacle of the pains of death is gone by; the funeral day is past. We feel she is at peace. No need now to trouble for the hard frost and the keen wind. Emily does not feel them.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Pain, Past, Yesterday

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• Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.

  Charlotte Bronte

  People, Excellence, Talent

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• To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.

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  Advantage, Worst, Knows

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Edition”, p.335, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I am no bird and no net ensnares me

  Charlotte Bronte

  Bird

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.207, Penguin

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