Charlotte Bronte Quotes - Page 7

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• I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me not in the external world. I asked, was it a mere nervous impression a delusion? I could not conceive or believe: it was more like an inspiration.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, Inspiration, 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.342, Penguin

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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 around us, for it is everywhere; and those spirits watch us, for they are commissioned to gaurd us; and if we were dying in pain and shame, if scorn smote us on all sides, and hatred crushed us, angels see our tortures, recognize our innocence, and God waits ony a speration of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Pain, Angel, Men

  "Jane Eyre". Book by Charlotte Bronte, October 16, 1847.

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• Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Memories, Add

  Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.99, Harper Collins

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• flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Would Be, Flattery, Vain

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• The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Perfect, Divine, Should

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.116, Penguin

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• I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Tired, Eight, Years

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes,--and to speak.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Grief, Struggle, And Love

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

  Pain, Ice, Veins

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.222, Penguin

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• Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Missing, Poison, Dread

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

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• Conventionality is not morality.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Wisdom, Fun, Motherhood

  'Jane Eyre' (2nd ed., 1848) preface

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• 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

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• I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Writing, Helping

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Possibility, Walks

  Jane Eyre ch. 1 (1847)

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• Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Personality, Cheerful, Matter

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Grateful, Names, Lips

  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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• To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Doubt

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.344, Penguin

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• Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Crush, Peace, Revenge

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.26, Variocity

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• But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Home, True Home, Villette

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.350, Xist Publishing

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• But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Punishment, Affection, Natural

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  People, Despise, Knows

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• ... and she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours and you are mine; and we shall leave Earth and make our own Heaven yonder.'

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hands, Heaven, Gold

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.219, Penguin

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• Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Judgement, Feelings, Bitter

  Charlotte Bronte (2017). “Jane Eyre”, p.188, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

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• There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can never be rightly known, we take pleasure, I think, in being consummately ignored. What honest man on being casually taken for a housebreaker does not feel rather tickled than vexed at the mistake?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Mistake, Taken, Men

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.98, Xist Publishing

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