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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: "Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to..."
Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the breach? Charlotte Bronte
Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards. Charlotte Bronte
I am sure, sir, I should never mistake informality for insolence: one I rather like, the other nothing free-born would submit to, even for a salary Charlotte Bronte
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
To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment. Charlotte Bronte
I am not going out under human guidance, subject to the defective laws and erring control of my feeble fellow-worms; my king, my lawgiver, my captain, is the All-perfect; it seems strange to me that all round me do not burn to enlist under the same banner--to join in the same enterprise. Charlotte Bronte
Blanche Ingram, after having repelled, by supercilious taciturnity, some efforts of Mrs Dent and Mrs Eshton to draw her into conversation, had first murmured over some sentimental tunes and airs on the piano, and then, having fetched a novel from the library, had flung herself in haughty listlessness on a sofa and prepared to beguile, by the spell of fiction, the tedious hours of absence. Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte quote: "it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your..."
...it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear. Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte quote: "Decidedly he has had too much wine,' I thought"
Decidedly he has had too much wine,' I thought Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte quote: "Your will shall decide your destiny."
Your will shall decide your destiny. Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte quote: "I'm just going to write because I cannot help it."
I'm just going to write because I cannot help it. Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte quote: "I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like thesternness..."
I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like thesternness and stillness of the world under this frost. Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte quote: "Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal..."
Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me. Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte quote: "Jane accept me quickly. Say, Edward? give me my name? Edward?..."
Jane accept me quickly. Say, Edward? give me my name? Edward? I will marry you. Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte quote: "Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to..."
Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea. Charlotte Bronte

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