English novelist (1816-1855)
God did not give me my life to throw it away.
CHARLOTTE BRONTË
Jane Eyre
I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
CHARLOTTE BRONTË
attributed, The Brontës
Affectation, or coldness, or stupid, coarse-minded misapprehension of one's meaning are the usual rewards of candour.
CHARLOTTE BRONTË
Jane Eyre
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
CHARLOTTE BRONTË
Jane Eyre
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
Jane Eyre
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter -- in the eye.
CHARLOTTE BRONTË
Jane Eyre
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
CHARLOTTE BRONTË
Jane Eyre
His wit is bright, his humour attractive, but both bear the same relation to his serious genius that the mere lambent sheet-lightning playing under the edge of the summer-cloud does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb.
CHARLOTTE BRONTË
preface, Jane Eyre
Our honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.
CHARLOTTE BRONTË
Jane Eyre
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!
CHARLOTTE BRONTË
Jane Eyre
Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour.... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?
CHARLOTTE BRONTË
Jane Eyre
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 for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?
CHARLOTTE BRONTË
Villette