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Charlotte-Bronte  Quotes
I suspect that Jane Austen’s practice of denying herself the aid of figurative language which, as much as any of her other habits of expression, repelled Charlotte Brontë, and has alienated other readers, conscious with...

—Mary Lascelles

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Charlotte-BronteJane-Austen
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Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

—Charlotte Brontë

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Charlotte-BronteFateJane-Eyre
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Non era stata mia intenzione amarlo, e avevo fatto di tutto per estirpare dal mio animo i germi dell’amore che vi avevo scovato; e ora, non appena l’avevo rivisto, essi risorgevano spontaneamente più forti e...

—Charlotte Brontë

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Charlotte-BronteJane-EyreRomantic
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As I exclaimed ‘Jane! Jane! Jane!’ a voice- I cannot tell whence the voice came, but I know whose voice it was- replied, ‘I am coming: wait for me;’ and a moment after, went whispering...

—Charlotte Brontë

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Charlotte-BronteJane-EyreLove
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I am no bird, no net ensnares me.

—Charlotte Brontë

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Charlotte-BronteClassicsFreedom-Of-Speech
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I had not seen “Pride and Prejudice,” till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully...

—Charlotte Brontë

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Charlotte-BronteJane-AustenPride-And-Prejudice
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Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! – I have as much soul as you, – and full as much heart! And if...

—Charlotte Brontë

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I recalled that inward sensation I had experienced: for I could recall it, with all its unspeakable strangeness. I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before:...

—Charlotte Brontë

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Charlotte-BronteFeminismJane-Eyre
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It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

—Charlotte Brontë

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Charlotte-BronteHuman-NatureJane-Eyre
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You ask me if I do not think that men are strange beings – I do indeed, I have often thought so – and I think too that the mode of bringing them up is...

—Charlotte Brontë

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Charlotte-BronteEqualityFeminist
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[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

—Charlotte Brontë

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Charlotte-BronteDeathEdward-Fairfax-Rochester
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Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

—Charlotte Brontë

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BittersweetCharlotte-BronteJane-Eyre
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…[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly lived, were at last about to taste life.

—Charlotte Brontë

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BrontesCharlotte-BronteHope
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Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.

—Jane Eyre

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Charlotte-BronteClassicsJane
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Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.” –...

—Charlotte Brontë

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Charlotte-BronteJane-EyreLife
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Tonight, however, Dickens struck him in a different light. Beneath the author’s sentimental pity for the weak and helpless, he could discern a revolting pleasure in cruelty and suffering, while the grotesque figures of the...

—Margaret Irwin

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Charles-DickensCharlotte-BronteEmily-Bronte
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This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great single cloud disparts and rolls away from heaven, not passing and leaving a...

—Charlotte Brontë

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