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Charlotte Bronte Quotes

Charlotte Bronte quotes

British Novelist April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855

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It agitates me that the skyline there is forever our limit, I long for the power of unlimited vision...If I could behold all I imagine. Charlotte Bronte
They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities; a useless thing, incapable of serving their interest, or adding to their pleasure; a noxious thing, cherishing the germs of indignation at their treatment, of contempt of their judgment. I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child—though equally dependent and... Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte quote: "Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who..."
Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you. Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte quote: "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being..."
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. Charlotte Bronte
No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every man, worthy of the name, will row long against wind and tide before he allows himself to cry out, 'I am baffled!' and submits to be floated passively back to land. Charlotte Bronte
I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate. Charlotte Bronte
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
Charlotte Bronte quote: "Because I want to read your countenance? turn!"
Because I want to read your countenance? turn! Charlotte Bronte
I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me; and conscience, turned tyrant, held passion by the throat, told her tauntingly, she had yet but dipped her dainty foot in the slough, and swore that with that arm of iron he would thrust her down to unsounded depths of agony. Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte quote: "Give him enough rope and he will hang himself."
Give him enough rope and he will hang himself. Charlotte Bronte
Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity had not yet found the key. Charlotte Bronte
Well; I would rather die yonder than in a street, or on a frequented road, ' I reflected. 'And far better that crows and ravens -if any ravens there be in these regions- should pick my flesh from my bones, than that they should be prisoned in a work-house coffin, and moulder in a pauper's grave. Charlotte Bronte
All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever. Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte quote: "Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of..."
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte quote: "I am a free human being with an independent will."Jane Eyre"
I am a free human being with an independent will."Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte

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