"Something of vengeance I had tasted for the……" — Charlotte Bronte
"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."
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Charlotte Bronte
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315 Quotes by Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte has 315 quotes on this site.
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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
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You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,…
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The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
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Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from…
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter…
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I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
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Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets…
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The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa,the aromatic America of Columbus,Catholic America, Spanish America,the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said: "I am…
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The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing…
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
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On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is sparkling light, aromatic plants, a lofty palace, a flowing river, ripe fruit, a beautiful wife and abundant clothing,…
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Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was…
— William Bartram
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He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food . . . of the…
— Evelyn Waugh
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The lime trees were in bloom. But in the early morning only a faint fragrance drifted through the garden, an…
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
— Hippocrates
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Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.
— Ben Aaronovitch
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No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man…
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