Fitness Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“He was being the scrupulously honorable gentleman, she realized, protecting her name, taking the consequences of his own indiscretion. She understood all that and…

— Mary Balogh

“I saw these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on…

— Hermann Hesse

“You see, he had once known a woman who had told herself she could do anything – and then decided she could do nothing;…

— Jojo Moyes

“the partner of his guilt, should be hurled from the pinnacle of unsullied virtue, down to the lowest abyss of infamy and degradation: in…

— John William Polidori

“He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind, and to surround her with all…

— Mary Shelley

“Disdaining the heroic outfit, excitable in her methods, garrulous, episodical, shrill, she misled her lover much as she misled her aunt. He mistook her…

— E.M. Forster

“She opened her curtains, and looked out towards the bit of road that lay in view, with fields beyond outside the entrance-gates. On the…

— George Eliot

“Yet this little creature, of so mean an origin that she could not write her name, shone with an amiable lustre amid the corruptions…

— Marjorie Bowen

“But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured.…

— Charles Dickens

“For love, as she knew it now, was something without shame and without reserve, the possession of two people who had no barrier between…

— Daphne du Maurier

“...some small part of her had reacted to the passion inside him. Despite his role as a titled gentleman, there seemed to be a…

— Brenda Novak

“The very falsehood that stained her, was a proof how blindly she loved another--this dark, slight, elegant, handsome man--while he himself was rough, and…

— Elizabeth Gaskellbeth Gaskell