Charlotte Bronte Quotes - Page 9

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• I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  I Love You, Beauty, Love You

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.212, Penguin

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• Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Good Night, Lips, Left

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.150, Penguin

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• Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Nature, Morning, Rain

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.54, The Floating Press

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• Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said, whispering mysteriously.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Whispering, Fairy, Said

  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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• Daydreams are the delusions of the devil.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Devil, Daydreaming, Delusion

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• 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

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• Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Trying, Ears, Violence

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.247, Penguin

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• Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Years, England, Clergy

  Shirley ch. 1 (1849)

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• Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Talking, Alarms, May

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.241, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Insults You, Necks

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.216, Penguin

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• He is not to them what he is to me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Charlotte Bronte “Annotated Jane Eyre: An Autobiography with English Grammar Exercises: by Charlotte Bronte (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, Silence, Waiting

  "Jane Eyre". Book by Charlotte Bronte, Jane (Ch. 28), October 16, 1847.

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• ...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Departure, Strikes, Torn

  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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• Prodigious was the amount of life I lived that morning.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Morning, Prodigious, Amount

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.49, Xist Publishing

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• I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.' - Jane Eyre

  Charlotte Bronte

  Thinking, Forever, Breathe

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Lasts, Said

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.197, Penguin

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• I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand - they only. Know this at last.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Hands, Independence

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.314, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Somewhere Under, Feelings, Ribs

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• For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Degradation, Charity, Hunger

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.270, Everyman's Library

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• Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sympathy, Hate, Mad

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.246, Penguin

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• There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sorrow, Vision, Arms

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• When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Reason, Should, Strikes

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

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• The word book acted as a transient stimulus

  Charlotte Bronte

  Book, Stimulus, Transient

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.20, Penguin

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• Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Kindness, Home, Rochester

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.202, Penguin

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• 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)

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