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Charlotte Bronte Quotes

Charlotte Bronte quotes

British Novelist April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855

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Charlotte Bronte quote: "Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The..."
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
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial. Charlotte Bronte
You would say you don't see it: at least I flatter myself I read as much in your eye (beware, by-the-by, what you express with that organ, I am quick at interpreting its language). Charlotte Bronte
Now I have performed the part of a good host,” pursued Mr. Rochester, “put my guests into the way of amusing each other, I ought to be at liberty to attend to my own pleasure. Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte quote: "The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single,..."
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. Charlotte Bronte
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. Charlotte Bronte
Unjust! - unjust!' said my reason, forced by the agonising stimulus into precocious though transitory power; and Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated some strange expedient to achieve escape from insupportable oppression - as running away, or, if that could not be effected, never eating or drinking more, and letting myself die. Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte quote: "The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an..."
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye. Charlotte Bronte
Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go to Ireland, with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly. Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte quote: "I feel monotony and death to be almost the same."
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. Charlotte Bronte
One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune; one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise cetain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow. Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte quote: "Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and..."
Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing. Charlotte Bronte
I had a keen delight in receiving the new ideas he offered, in imagining the new pictures he portrayed, and following him in thought through the new regions he disclosed, never startled or troubled by one noxious allusion. Charlotte Bronte
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
This little man was of the order of beings who must not be opposed, unless you possessed an all-dominant force sufficient to crush him at once. Charlotte Bronte

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