All Charlotte Bronte Quotes
- I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. Breaking
- My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it. Been
- I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil… All
- ...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and… Absolutely
- I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and… Abandon
- He is not to them what he is to me. Funny
- I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his… Annum
- I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon. Afternoon
- My fine visions are all very well, but I must not forget they are absolutely unreal. I have a rosy sky and a green flowery… Absolutely
- I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.' 'Station! Station!-- your station is in my heart, and on the necks of… Believe
- I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane? Arms
- Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps. Genuine
- Make my happiness--I will make yours. Funny
- While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed! Enjoyed
- You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream All
- 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… Afraid
- You transfix me quite. Funny
- What the deuce is to do now? Deuce
- Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal. Ashamed
- I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep. Believe
- My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of a sullen hollow… Best
- Prodigious was the amount of life I lived that morning. Amount
- 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,… Aromatic
- Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: to imagine… Befalling
- There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may. Certain