Time Quotes by Charlotte Bronte

“In her past were sweet passages, in her future rosy hopes.”

— Charlotte Brontë

Who has words at the right moment?

— Charlotte Bronte

“It is time some one undertook to rehumanise you”

— Charlotte Brontë

I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld…

— Charlotte Bronte

“Superstition was with me at that moment, but it was not yet her hour for complete victory.”

— Charlotte Brontë

Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the…

— Charlotte Bronte

What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?

— Charlotte Bronte

“Reason might be right; yet no wonder we are glad at times to defy her, to rush from under her rod and…

— Charlotte Brontë

“And if I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from these easy tasks, what preparation…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Some say there is enjoyment in looking back to painful experience past; but at this day I can scarcely bear to review…

— Charlotte Brontë

Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so…

— Charlotte Bronte

After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found…

— Charlotte Bronte

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body…

— Charlotte Bronte

“I had feelings: passive as I lived, little as I spoke, cold as I looked, when I thought of past days, I…

— Charlotte Brontë

“The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Biblical promises, heard first in health, but then unheeded, come whispering to the couch of sickness; it is felt that a pitying…

— Charlotte Brontë

But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of whichhe is not always mastersomething that at times…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Thus for the first, and perhaps only time in my life, I enjoyed the “giftie” of seeing myself as others see me.…

— Charlotte Brontë

“My reader, I know, is one who would not thank me for an elaborate reproduction of poetic first impressions; and it is…

— Charlotte Brontë

“And what is hell? Can you tell me that?” “A pit full of fire.” “And should you like to fall into that…

— Charlotte Bronte

“(But) I learned in time that this benignity, this cordiality, this music, belonged in no shape to me: it was a part…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Diana announced that she would just give me time to get over the honey-moon, and then she would come and see me.…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Hopeless of the future, I wished but this- that my Maker had that night thought good to require my soul of me…

— Charlotte Brontë

“The incident had occurred and was gone for me: itwasan incident of no moment, no romance, no interest in a sense; yet…

— Charlotte Brontë

“And, moreover, you need not for a moment to insinuate that the virtues have taken refuge in cottages and wholly abandoned slated…

— Charlotte Brontë

“As I exclaimed 'Jane! Jane! Jane!' a voice- I cannot tell whence the voice came, but I know whose voice it was-…

— Charlotte Brontë

“At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance, were almost dreaded by me,…

— Charlotte Brontë

“The broad white road unrolled before the long procession, the sun and sky surveyed it cloudless, the wind tossed the tree boughs…

— Charlotte Brontë

“I was at once content and stimulated with what I saw: I liked what I had seen, and wished to see more.…

— Charlotte Brontë

“I did. Mr. Rochester, reading my countenance, saw I had done so. His fury was wrought to the highest: he must yield…

— Charlotte Brontë

“…the matter was new to me, and I had no material for its treatment. But I got books, read up the facts,…

— Charlotte Brontë

“during that time he made me feel what severe punishment a good yet stern, a conscientious yet implacable man can inflict on…

— Charlotte Brontë

“It was my time to assume ascendency. My powers were in-play and in force. I told him to forbear question or remark;…

— Charlotte Brontë

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you…

— Charlotte Bronte

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely…

— Charlotte Bronte

“But soon I said to myself, “The Hope I am bemoaning suffered and made me suffer much: it did not die till…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Is that the summit of earthly happiness, the end of life - to love? I don't think it is. It may be…

— Charlotte Brontë

“One moment longer," whispered solitude and the summer moon, "stay with us: all is truly quiet now; for another quarter of an…

— Charlotte Brontë

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour,…

— Charlotte Bronte

“What good it would have done me at that time to have been tossed in the storms of an uncertain struggling like,…

— Charlotte Brontë