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Whatever my powersfeminine or the contraryGod had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal. By Charlotte Bronte

This notice has been written, because I felt it a sacred duty to wipe the dust off their gravestones, and leave their dear names free from soil. By Charlotte Bronte

CHAPTER VII WHICH THE GENTEEL READER IS RECOMMENDED TO SKIP, LOW PERSONS BEING HERE INTRODUCED By Charlotte Bronte

My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it. By Charlotte Bronte

I often think it would be such luxury to go mad, and not have to worry about anything. Others would have to worry for me, about me. By Charlotte Bronte

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. By Charlotte Bronte

And it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it ... By Charlotte Bronte

Mademoiselle is a fairy, he said, whispering mysteriously. By Charlotte Bronte

Who are you, Lucy Snowe? By Charlotte Bronte

This little man was of the order of beings who must not be opposed, unless you possessed an all-dominant force sufficient to crush him at once. By Charlotte Bronte

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem! By Charlotte Bronte

His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss. By Charlotte Bronte

Since happiness is irrevocably denied me, I have a right to get pleasure out of life: and I will get it, cost what it may. By Charlotte Bronte

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine. By Charlotte Bronte

The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle. By Charlotte Bronte

Now here (he pointed to the leafy enclosure we had entered) all is real, sweet, and pure By Charlotte Bronte

Lingerer, my brain is on fire with impatience; and you tarry so long! By Charlotte Bronte

When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large, brilliant, and black. By Charlotte Bronte

Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most of present pleasure. By Charlotte Bronte

Remorse is the poison of life. Reformation may be its cure. By Charlotte Bronte

I think I shall like you again, and yet again: and I will make you confess I do not only like, but love youwith truth, fervour, constancy. By Charlotte Bronte

Make my happiness - I will make yours. God pardon me!" he subjoined ere long; "and man meddle not with me: I have her and will hold her. By Charlotte Bronte

While I looked, I thought myself happy, and was surprised to find myself ere long weepingand why? By Charlotte Bronte

Then the curtain rises, and you will see the girl to whom I am going to give all my life, to whom I have given everything that is good in me. By Charlotte Bronte

Left alone, I was passive; repulsed, I withdrew; forgotten - my lips would not utter, nor my eyes dart a reminder. By Charlotte Bronte

Jane, I never meant to wound you thus ... Will you ever forgive me?Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot. By Charlotte Bronte

Well, for cool native impudence and pure innate pride, you haven't your equal By Charlotte Bronte

I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester: I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice By Charlotte Bronte

Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein. By Charlotte Bronte

I am not romantic. I am stripped of romance as bare as the white tenters in that field are of cloth. By Charlotte Bronte

I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs. By Charlotte Bronte

Brainless and vicious youth whom I had sometimes met in society, and had never thought of hating because I despised him so absolutely. By Charlotte Bronte

Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime. By Charlotte Bronte

There's no use in weeping,Though we are condemned to part:There's such a thing as keeping,A remembrance in one's heart ... By Charlotte Bronte

I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains. By Charlotte Bronte

Jane, I don't like cavillers or questioners; besides, there is something truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that manner. By Charlotte Bronte

It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or bemoaning the mortifications, of feelings. By Charlotte Bronte

Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home - my only home. By Charlotte Bronte

But, in my opinion, if I am not formed for love, it follows that I am not formed for marriage. By Charlotte Bronte

Mine was the game where the player cannot lose and may win. By Charlotte Bronte

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. By Charlotte Bronte

And it is you, spiritwith will and energy, and virtue and puritythat I want, not alone with your brittle frame. By Charlotte Bronte

If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed. By Charlotte Bronte

Nothing remained now but to take my freedom to my chamber, to carry it with me to my bed and see what I could make of it. By Charlotte Bronte

I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart. By Charlotte Bronte

If there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this house could yield it ... By Charlotte Bronte

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation. By Charlotte Bronte

I thought not. And so you were waiting for your people when you sat on that stile?" "For whom, sir? By Charlotte Bronte

All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever. By Charlotte Bronte

I am unhappy - very unhappy, for other things. By Charlotte Bronte

Never was the distinction between charity and mercy better exemplified than in her. By Charlotte Bronte

As far as my experience of matrimony goes I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself. By Charlotte Bronte

The noble and high born cannot endure grief. By Charlotte Bronte

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. By Charlotte Bronte

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator. By Charlotte Bronte

But to-night I am resolved to be at ease; to dismiss what importunes, and recall what pleases. By Charlotte Bronte

The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him By Charlotte Bronte

Your station is in my heart. By Charlotte Bronte

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. By Charlotte Bronte

I never liked long walks By Charlotte Bronte

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. By Charlotte Bronte

I believe it was an inspiration rather than a temptation By Charlotte Bronte

Signs may be but the sympathies of nature with man. By Charlotte Bronte

For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial. By Charlotte Bronte

A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth By Charlotte Bronte

It is time some one undertook to rehumanise you By Charlotte Bronte

Ill-Success failed to crush us: the mere effort to succeed had given a wonderful zest to existence; it must be pursued. By Charlotte Bronte

I and my pupil dined By Charlotte Bronte

no net ensnares me By Charlotte Bronte

. . . still we are none of us perfect . . . By Charlotte Bronte

I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities. By Charlotte Bronte

It is not violence that best overcomes hate nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury. By Charlotte Bronte

grovelling, mole-eyed blockhead By Charlotte Bronte

Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings. By Charlotte Bronte

Sententious sage! so it is: but I swear by my household gods not By Charlotte Bronte

Because I want to read your countenance - turn! By Charlotte Bronte

I had enjoyed so much bliss lately that i imagined my fortune had passed its meridian and must now decline. By Charlotte Bronte

I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me. By Charlotte Bronte

You examine me Miss Eyre, " said he: "Do you think me handsome? By Charlotte Bronte

Perhaps the less said on that subject the better, Mr. Brocklehurst. By Charlotte Bronte

Endurance over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition. By Charlotte Bronte

Good-night, my- He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me. By Charlotte Bronte

...but I believed in the existence of other and more vivid kinds of goodness, and what I believed in I wished to behold. By Charlotte Bronte

Let your performance do the thinking. By Charlotte Bronte

Nobody in particular is to blame, that I can see, for the state in which things are ... By Charlotte Bronte

Farewell!" was the cry of my heart as I left him. Despair added, "Farewell for ever! By Charlotte Bronte

Your will shall decide your destiny. By Charlotte Bronte

Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius. By Charlotte Bronte

Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear. By Charlotte Bronte

Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers By Charlotte Bronte

His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows. By Charlotte Bronte

That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure. By Charlotte Bronte

I see," he said," the mountain will never be brought to Mahomet, so all you can do is to aid Mahomet to go to the mountain ... By Charlotte Bronte

The floodgates of tears are opened, and they would rush out if you spoke much. By Charlotte Bronte

He fumed like a bottled storm. By Charlotte Bronte

I scorned the insinuation of helplessness and distraction, shook off his hand, and began to walk about again. By Charlotte Bronte

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. By Charlotte Bronte

Your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me ... By Charlotte Bronte

We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible. By Charlotte Bronte

Breakfast was over, and none had breakfasted. By Charlotte Bronte

If Saul could have had you for his David, the evil spirit would have been exorcised without the aid of the harp. By Charlotte Bronte

I am, sir. It is my way - it always was my way, by instinct - ever to meet the brief with brevity, the direct with plainness. By Charlotte Bronte

You transfix me quite. By Charlotte Bronte

I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me By Charlotte Bronte

I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends! By Charlotte Bronte

Read the New Testament, and observe what Christ says, and how he acts-make his world your rule, and his conduct your example. By Charlotte Bronte

He felt the greatness and goodness of his purpose so sincerely: others who heard him plead for it, could not but feel it too. By Charlotte Bronte

I am the only being whose doom no tongue would ask, no eye would mourn. By Charlotte Bronte

You think all existence lapses in a quiet flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away By Charlotte Bronte

With what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged! By Charlotte Bronte

Prodigious was the amount of life I lived that morning. By Charlotte Bronte

It would take a great deal to crush me By Charlotte Bronte

Such absolute impenetrability is past comprehension By Charlotte Bronte

I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery. By Charlotte Bronte

It is a long way off, sir""From what Jane?""From England and from Thornfield: and _""Well?""From you, sir By Charlotte Bronte

They outnumbered me, and I was worsted and under their feet; but, as yet, I was not dead. By Charlotte Bronte

...I ardently wished to die By Charlotte Bronte

He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. By Charlotte Bronte

Everyone else is just cocktails. By Charlotte Bronte

Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are the attributes of an angel. By Charlotte Bronte

What do I want? A new place, in a new house, amongst new faces, under new circumstances. By Charlotte Bronte

door, and locking it behind them. By Charlotte Bronte

To me, he was in reality become no longer flesh, but marble; his eye was a cold, bright, blue gem; his tongue a speaking instrument - nothing more. By Charlotte Bronte

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. By Charlotte Bronte

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well! By Charlotte Bronte

My heart is mute--my heart is mute By Charlotte Bronte

He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw. By Charlotte Bronte

Donnez-moi la main! I see we worship the same God, in the same spirit, though by different rites. By Charlotte Bronte

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine. By Charlotte Bronte

You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity. By Charlotte Bronte

All the room darkened and my heart again sank; inexpressible sadness weighed it down By Charlotte Bronte

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. By Charlotte Bronte

Nothing refines like affection. Family jarring vulgarizes - family union elevates. By Charlotte Bronte

Now, when any vicious simpleton excites my disgust by his paltry ribaldry ... By Charlotte Bronte

I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly. By Charlotte Bronte

Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace. By Charlotte Bronte

Would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all! By Charlotte Bronte

I have no wish to talk nonsense.""If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense. By Charlotte Bronte

Be not far from me, for trouble is near: there is none to help. By Charlotte Bronte

I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.'- Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte

Stale details often regain a degree of freshness when they pass through new lips. By Charlotte Bronte

I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon. By Charlotte Bronte

I would always rather be happy than dignified. By Charlotte Bronte

He must love such a handsome, noble, witty, accomplished lady; and probably she loves him, or, if not his person, at least his purse By Charlotte Bronte

Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me. By Charlotte Bronte

The hopes that, in my own heart sown,And cherished by such sun and rain,As Joy and transient Sorrow shed,Have ripened to a harvest there: By Charlotte Bronte

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. By Charlotte Bronte

How all my brain was in tumult, and all my heart in insurrection! Yet in what darkness, what dense ignorance, was the mental battle fought! By Charlotte Bronte

One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one's words much. By Charlotte Bronte

And I am a hard woman, -impossible to put off. By Charlotte Bronte

Some have won a wild delight,By daring wilder sorrow;Could I gain thy love to-night,I'd hazard death to-morrow. By Charlotte Bronte

Childish and slender creature! It seemed as if a linnet had hopped to my foot and proposed to bear me on its tiny wing. By Charlotte Bronte

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand they only. Know this at last. By Charlotte Bronte

All has changed about me, sir; I must change too - there is no doubt of that... By Charlotte Bronte

It was in looking up at him her aspect had caught its lustre - the light repeated in her eyes beamed first out of his. By Charlotte Bronte

God did not give me my life to throw it away. By Charlotte Bronte

I will break obstacles to happiness, to goodness - yes, goodness. I wish to be a better man than I have been, than I am By Charlotte Bronte

I heard the gallop of a horse at a distance on the road; I was sure it was you; and you were departing for many years and for a distant country. By Charlotte Bronte

Picture me then idle, basking, plump, and happy, stretched on a cushioned deck, warmed with constant sunshine, rocked by breezes indolently soft. By Charlotte Bronte

He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' broke in anguish from his lips. By Charlotte Bronte

You left him a sup o' wine, I hope, Bob" (turning to Mr. Moore), "to keep his courage up? By Charlotte Bronte

What strength had I to dart retaliation at my antagonist? By Charlotte Bronte

Sometimes I half fall asleep when I am sitting alone and fancy things that have never happened. By Charlotte Bronte

Do you think me, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? By Charlotte Bronte

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. By Charlotte Bronte

Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest. By Charlotte Bronte

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day. By Charlotte Bronte

Her beauty, her pink cheeks, and golden curls, seemed to give delight to all who looked at her and to purchase indemnity for every fault By Charlotte Bronte

God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; By Charlotte Bronte

My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire. By Charlotte Bronte

I found Burns, absorbed, silent, abstracted from all around her by the companionship of a book, which she read by the dim glare of the embers. By Charlotte Bronte

Stick to the needle, learn shirt-making and gown-making and piecrust-making, and you will be a clever woman some day. By Charlotte Bronte

It would not be wicked to love me.""It would to obey you. By Charlotte Bronte

Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the breach? By Charlotte Bronte

I am paving hell with energy... I am laying down good intentions which I believe durable as flint. By Charlotte Bronte

A sorrowful indifference to existence often pressed on mea despairing resignation to reach betimes the end of all things earthly By Charlotte Bronte

The horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white. By Charlotte Bronte

Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare. By Charlotte Bronte

But I don't mean to flatter you: if you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. By Charlotte Bronte

I will hold to the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad - as I am now. By Charlotte Bronte

I've always known myself. But he was the first to recognize me. And to love what he saw. By Charlotte Bronte

Love is realthe most real, the most lasting, the sweetest and yet the bitterest thing we know. By Charlotte Bronte

My bride is here ... because my equal is here and my likeness ... come to me- come to me entilrely now ... make my happiness- I will make yours By Charlotte Bronte

You know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love which I am capable. By Charlotte Bronte

I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world. By Charlotte Bronte

I will tell you it is my neck you are putting in peril; for whatever is yours is, in a dearer and tenderer sense, mine. By Charlotte Bronte

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own. By Charlotte Bronte

Ever after that I knew what I was for him; and what I might be for the rest of the world, I ceased painfully to care. By Charlotte Bronte

You, Jane, I must have you for my ownentirely my own. By Charlotte Bronte

Make my happiness--I will make yours. By Charlotte Bronte

Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken. By Charlotte Bronte

Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth. By Charlotte Bronte

Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still By Charlotte Bronte

Better be generally in love with all than specially with one, I should think ... By Charlotte Bronte

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence. By Charlotte Bronte

Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. By Charlotte Bronte

To speak truth, I had not the least wish to go into company, for in company I was very rarely noticed; By Charlotte Bronte

I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here. By Charlotte Bronte

I can but die ... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence. By Charlotte Bronte

Stay your weary little wandering feet at a friend's threshold. By Charlotte Bronte

Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. By Charlotte Bronte

Having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real world very patiently. By Charlotte Bronte

This girl who stands so quiet and grave at the mouth of hell. This girl who is all quietness and sanity and innocence. You wondered why I wanted her? By Charlotte Bronte

I was a precocious actress in her eyes; she sincerely looked on me as a compound of virulent passions, mean spirit, and dangerous duplicity. By Charlotte Bronte

To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break ... I am ever tender and true. By Charlotte Bronte

And yet there were fragments of truth here and there which satisfied the conscience, and gleams of light that cheered the vision. By Charlotte Bronte

I shall never more know the sweet homage given to beauty, youth and grace - for never to any else shall I seem to possess these charms. By Charlotte Bronte

Fire rises out of the lunar mountains: when she is cold, I'll carry her up to a peak, and lay her down on the edge of a crater. By Charlotte Bronte

I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me. By Charlotte Bronte

All my life was awake and astir in my frame ... and he I was not to array myself to meet. By Charlotte Bronte

This pure little drop from a pure little source was too sweet: it penetrated deep, and subdued the heart By Charlotte Bronte

I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. By Charlotte Bronte

Thus occupied, and mutually entertained, days passed like hours, and weeks like days. By Charlotte Bronte

It agitates me that the skyline there is forever our limit, I long for the power of unlimited vision ... If I could behold all I imagine. By Charlotte Bronte

I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much. By Charlotte Bronte

Who told you I was called Carl David?" "A little bird, Monsieur." "Does it fly from me to you? Then one can tie a message under its wing when needful. By Charlotte Bronte

For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity ... By Charlotte Bronte

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer. By Charlotte Bronte

A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life. By Charlotte Bronte

Are you going somewhere, Helen? Are you going home?" "Yes; to my long home - my last home. By Charlotte Bronte

Does not the consciousness of having done some real good in your day and generation give pleasure? By Charlotte Bronte

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. By Charlotte Bronte

He, I believe, never remembered that I had eyes in my head, much less a brain behind them. By Charlotte Bronte

Sir, you have now given me my 'cadeau;' I am obliged to you: it is the meed teachers most covet-praise of their pupils' progress. By Charlotte Bronte

On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world. By Charlotte Bronte

Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England. By Charlotte Bronte

I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman. By Charlotte Bronte

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? By Charlotte Bronte

Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated. By Charlotte Bronte

Who are you, Miss Snowe?" ... "Who am I indeed? Perhaps a personage in disguise. By Charlotte Bronte

Good-night, Dr. John; you are good, you are beautiful; but you are not mine. Good-night and God bless you! By Charlotte Bronte

You glowed in the cool moonlight last night, when you mutinied against fate, and claimed your rank as my equal. By Charlotte Bronte

That I have wakened out of most glorious dreams, and found them all void and vain, is a horror I could bear and master By Charlotte Bronte

A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance. By Charlotte Bronte

The word book acted as a transient stimulus By Charlotte Bronte

Thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with By Charlotte Bronte

To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions. By Charlotte Bronte

Coldest the remembrance of the wider oceanwealth, caste, custom intervened between me and what I naturally and inevitably loved. By Charlotte Bronte

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. By Charlotte Bronte

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. By Charlotte Bronte

And I do not want a stranger - unsympathising, alien, different from me; I want my kidred: those with whom I have a full fellow-feeling. By Charlotte Bronte

I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility ... By Charlotte Bronte

Is your book interesting? I had already formed the intention of asking her to lend it to me some day. By Charlotte Bronte

The book-shelves were her darling treasure, She rarely seemed the time to measure While she could read alone. By Charlotte Bronte

What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me? By Charlotte Bronte

Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards. By Charlotte Bronte

You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream By Charlotte Bronte

I had wakened the glow: his features beamed.'Oh, you are indeed there, my sky-lark! By Charlotte Bronte

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it. By Charlotte Bronte

To cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul! By Charlotte Bronte

I ask you to pass through life at my side - to be my second self, and best earthly companion. By Charlotte Bronte

Take her," he said. "take her, John Bretton; and may God deal with you as you deal with her! By Charlotte Bronte

When fate wronged me, I had not the wisdom to remain cool: I turned desperate; then I degenerated. By Charlotte Bronte

Does my forehead not please you- Mr Rochester By Charlotte Bronte

Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. By Charlotte Bronte

I am sure, sir, I should never mistake informality for insolence: one I rather like, the other nothing free-born would submit to, even for a salary By Charlotte Bronte

I am no bird and no net ensnares me By Charlotte Bronte

What fresh hell is this? By Charlotte Bronte

They would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves. By Charlotte Bronte

CHAPTER XIV THE WINDING-UP By Charlotte Bronte

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. By Charlotte Bronte

Shake me off, then, sirpush me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord. By Charlotte Bronte

Alas! never had I loved him so well! By Charlotte Bronte

Hiring a mistress is the next worse thing to buying a slave: both are often by nature, and always by position, inferior By Charlotte Bronte

You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face. By Charlotte Bronte

To be together is for us to be at once as free as insolitude, as gay as in company. By Charlotte Bronte

People talk of natural sympathies ; I have heard of good genii ; there are grains of truth in the wildest fable. By Charlotte Bronte

the solitary rocks and promontories By Charlotte Bronte

All the female Brocklehursts produce their pocket-handkerchiefs and apply them to their optics, while By Charlotte Bronte

I was full of faults; he took them and me all home. By Charlotte Bronte

It is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what is your fate to be required to bear By Charlotte Bronte

Wicked and cruel boy! I said. You are like a murderer - you are like a slave-driver - you are like the Roman emperors! By Charlotte Bronte

If he expects me to talk for the mere sake of talking and showing off, he will find he has addressed himself to the wrong person. By Charlotte Bronte

His presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire. By Charlotte Bronte

The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. I By Charlotte Bronte

I believe single women should have more to do - better chances of interesting and profitable occupation than they possess now. And By Charlotte Bronte

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking. By Charlotte Bronte

I can so dearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while abhor the last By Charlotte Bronte

Daydreams are the delusions of the devil. By Charlotte Bronte

Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion: we coincided, in short, perfectly. By Charlotte Bronte

You have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose then, your heart has been weeping blood? By Charlotte Bronte

Out of obscurity I came, to obscurity I can easily return. By Charlotte Bronte

Women are supposed to be calm generally: but women feel just as men feel ... By Charlotte Bronte

To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,Is such my future fate?The morn was dreary, must the eveBe also desolate? By Charlotte Bronte

If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed. By Charlotte Bronte

To live, for me, Jane, is to stand on a crater-crust which may crack and spue fire any day. By Charlotte Bronte

What the deuce is to do now? By Charlotte Bronte

Jane!Mr. Rochester! By Charlotte Bronte

Mr. Rochester : Your gaze is very direct, Miss Eyre. Do you think me handsome?Jane Eyre: No, sir. By Charlotte Bronte

Strange energy was in his voice, strange fire in his look. By Charlotte Bronte

Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes. By Charlotte Bronte

In the name of all the elves in Christendom, is that Jane Eyre? By Charlotte Bronte

Our power of being happy lies a good deal in ourselves, I believe. By Charlotte Bronte

While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed! By Charlotte Bronte

..left to myself I abandoned myself. By Charlotte Bronte

Accustomed to John Reed's abuse, I never had an idea of replying to it; my care was how to endure the blow which would certainly follow the insult. By Charlotte Bronte

Decidedly he has had too much wine,' I thought By Charlotte Bronte

Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none By Charlotte Bronte

I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent. By Charlotte Bronte

All is changed about me, sir; I must change too. By Charlotte Bronte

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted. By Charlotte Bronte

He was past youth, but had not reached middle-age; perhaps he might be thirty-five. By Charlotte Bronte

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps. By Charlotte Bronte

All is not gold that glitters By Charlotte Bronte

Ex-act-ly, pre-cisely: with your usual acuteness, you have hit the nail straight on the head. By Charlotte Bronte

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. By Charlotte Bronte

A pointed illustration indeed of the old adage that "extremes meet". By Charlotte Bronte

Alas, Experience! By Charlotte Bronte

I am no bird, no net ensnares me. By Charlotte Bronte

So this subject is done with. It is right to look our life-accounts bravely in the face now and then, and settle them honestly By Charlotte Bronte

My spirit is willing to do what is right; and my flesh, I hope, is strong enough to accomplish the will of Heaven By Charlotte Bronte

Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means. By Charlotte Bronte

But, Jane, I summon you as my wife: it is you only I intend to marry. By Charlotte Bronte

Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present. By Charlotte Bronte

If he were insane, however, his was a very cool and collected insanity. By Charlotte Bronte

A little roving, solitary thing. By Charlotte Bronte

Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly! By Charlotte Bronte

Your fortune is yet doubtful: when I examined your face, one trait contradicted another. By Charlotte Bronte

Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit. By Charlotte Bronte

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank. By Charlotte Bronte

but when people are long indifferent to us, we grow indifferent to their indifference. It By Charlotte Bronte

I don't like cavillers or questioners; besides, By Charlotte Bronte

Very good looking, with black hair and eyes, and lively complexion. By Charlotte Bronte

I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory Wait God's will. By Charlotte Bronte

Abbot, I think, gave me credit for being a sort of infantine Guy Fawkes. On By Charlotte Bronte

I am, as it is bliss to be,Still and untroubled. By Charlotte Bronte

Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy. By Charlotte Bronte

I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind. By Charlotte Bronte

The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. By Charlotte Bronte

Well said, forehead; your declaration shall be respected. By Charlotte Bronte

If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment. By Charlotte Bronte

Little things recall us to earth. The clock struck in the hall; that sufficed. I turned from the moon and the stars, opened a side door, and went in. By Charlotte Bronte

Reader, I married him. By Charlotte Bronte

Has there been a flood? By Charlotte Bronte

You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx. By Charlotte Bronte

Make my happiness , i will make yours . let no man prevent me , i have her and i will keep her. By Charlotte Bronte

To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant. By Charlotte Bronte

Look twice before you leap. By Charlotte Bronte

To prolong doubt was to prolong hope. By Charlotte Bronte

Prove it," I rejoined. By Charlotte Bronte

I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste. By Charlotte Bronte

With the book on my knee , i was happy ,i feared nothing except interruption. By Charlotte Bronte

A present has many faces to it, has it not? and one should consider all, before pronouncing an opinion as to its nature. By Charlotte Bronte

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing. By Charlotte Bronte

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. By Charlotte Bronte

I am neither a man nor a woman but an author. By Charlotte Bronte

I am a free human being with an independent will.Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte

Millions of marriages are unhappy; if everybody confessed the truth, perhaps all are more or less so. By Charlotte Bronte

Flirting is a woman's trade, one must keep in practice. By Charlotte Bronte

I pronounced them with such frantic energy. By Charlotte Bronte

I have a right to get pleasure out of life: and I will get it, cost what it may." "Then you will degenerate still more, sir. By Charlotte Bronte

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me. By Charlotte Bronte

I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like thesternness and stillness of the world under this frost. By Charlotte Bronte

Better to be without logic than without feeling. By Charlotte Bronte

I had a vague dread that wild cattle might be near. By Charlotte Bronte

As much goodwill may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many. By Charlotte Bronte

But solitude is sadness.''Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break. By Charlotte Bronte

What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me. By Charlotte Bronte

ebullition of the sensations. I had long felt By Charlotte Bronte

Where, indeed, does the moon not look well? What is the scene, confined or expansive, which her orb does not hallow? By Charlotte Bronte

Misery generates hate. By Charlotte Bronte

But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience? By Charlotte Bronte

Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor thank Heaven!always Storm. By Charlotte Bronte

I am only bound to invoke Memory where I know her responses will possess some degree of interest. By Charlotte Bronte

Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes By Charlotte Bronte

I enjoyed that day, though we travelled slowly, though it was cold, though it rained. By Charlotte Bronte

I wonder at the goodness of God, the generosity of my friends, the bounty of my lot. I do not repine. By Charlotte Bronte

The last mighty victories of the Lamb, who are called, and chosen, and faithful. By Charlotte Bronte

Jane accept me quickly. Say, Edward - give me my name - Edward - I will marry you. By Charlotte Bronte

I'd rather be a thing than an angel By Charlotte Bronte

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. It By Charlotte Bronte

Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules. By Charlotte Bronte

Wondering, and of my wonder finding no end. By Charlotte Bronte

Call anguishanguish, and despairdespair; write both down in strong characters with a resolute pen: you will the better pay your debt to Doom. By Charlotte Bronte

I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you By Charlotte Bronte

As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream. By Charlotte Bronte

I see on your cheek two tears which I know are hot as two sparks, and salt as two crystals of the sea. By Charlotte Bronte

Vain favour! coming, like most other favours long deferred and often wished for, too late! By Charlotte Bronte

His veins were dark with a vivid belladonna tincture, the essence of jealousy. By Charlotte Bronte

But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself? By Charlotte Bronte

Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. By Charlotte Bronte

All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality: By Charlotte Bronte

Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force! By Charlotte Bronte

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

If I failed in what I now designed to undertake, who, save myself, would suffer? By Charlotte Bronte

In short, as a man, he would have wished to coerce me into obedience; By Charlotte Bronte

My spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose; By Charlotte Bronte

Quit that chatter you block head and do my bidding. By Charlotte Bronte

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye. By Charlotte Bronte

I write because I cannot NOT write. By Charlotte Bronte

Genius is said to be self-conscious. By Charlotte Bronte

Superstition was with me at that moment, but it was not yet her hour for complete victory. By Charlotte Bronte

The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs. By Charlotte Bronte

It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things. By Charlotte Bronte

I feared nothing but interruption, and that came too soon. By Charlotte Bronte

To my mind a man is nothing without a spice of the devil in him By Charlotte Bronte

He that is low need fear no fall. By Charlotte Bronte

I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy. Mr. Rochester By Charlotte Bronte

The rooks cawed, and blither birds sang; but nothing was so merry or so musical as my own rejoicing heart. By Charlotte Bronte

It is in vain to say human beings By Charlotte Bronte

Everything in life seems unreal. By Charlotte Bronte

Youth is gone gone and will never come back: can't help it. By Charlotte Bronte

His wife might, I verily believe, be the very happiest woman the sun shines on By Charlotte Bronte

Conventionality is not morality. By Charlotte Bronte

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred! By Charlotte Bronte

After the play, after the play', said M. Paul. 'I will then divide my pair of pistols between you, and we will settle the dispute according to form. By Charlotte Bronte

The longer we live, the more our experience widens; the less prone are we to judge our neighbor's conduct. By Charlotte Bronte

I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express.- Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte

And came back through heavy rain, with streaming garments, but with a relieved heart. By Charlotte Bronte

Implacable man can inflict on one who has offended By Charlotte Bronte

Then her soul sat on her lips, and language flowed, from what source I cannot tell. By Charlotte Bronte

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. By Charlotte Bronte

I'm a universal patriot ... my country is the world. By Charlotte Bronte

St. John had a book in his hand - it was his unsocial custom to read at meals - he closed it and looked up. By Charlotte Bronte

A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; By Charlotte Bronte

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. By Charlotte Bronte

beauty is in the eye of the gazer." My By Charlotte Bronte

[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived. By Charlotte Bronte

The dews at this hour is unwholesome for females, observed Joe. By Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself. By Charlotte Bronte

And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down. By Charlotte Bronte

I know my maker sanctions what I do. For the world's judgement - I wash my hands thereof. For man's opinion- I defy it By Charlotte Bronte

Happiness is not a potato. By Charlotte Bronte

I knew he would soon strike, and while dreading the blow, I mused on the disgusting and ugly appearance of him who would presently deal it. By Charlotte Bronte

Suspense is irksome, disappointment bitter. By Charlotte Bronte

Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them. By Charlotte Bronte

Beauty is in the eye of the gazer. By Charlotte Bronte

He was born victor, as some are born vanquished. By Charlotte Bronte

You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read. By Charlotte Bronte

Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you. By Charlotte Bronte

Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy. By Charlotte Bronte

Adversity is a good school. By Charlotte Bronte

I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good. By Charlotte Bronte

Most things free-born will submit to anything for a salary. By Charlotte Bronte

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may. By Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible. By Charlotte Bronte

There are people who seem to have no notion of sketching a character, or observing and describing salient points, either in persons or things: By Charlotte Bronte

I believe it would take two Labassecourien carpenters to drive a nail. By Charlotte Bronte

My fear had by now passed its limit, and other feelings took its place. By Charlotte Bronte

There are certain things in which we so rarely meet with our double that it seems a miracle when that chance befalls. By Charlotte Bronte

A loving eye is all the charm needed: to such you are handsome enough; or rather your sternness has a power beyond beauty. By Charlotte Bronte

To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage. By Charlotte Bronte

I was a human being, and had a human being's wants: I must not linger where there was nothing to supply them. By Charlotte Bronte

Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea. By Charlotte Bronte

No - you men never do consider economy and common sense. By Charlotte Bronte

I was left there alone - winner of the field. It was the hardest battle I had fought, and the first victory I had gained. By Charlotte Bronte

appearance should not be mistaken for truth By Charlotte Bronte

I am not writing to flatter paternal egotism, to echo cant, or prop up humbug; I am merely telling the truth. By Charlotte Bronte

Liberty was the breath of Emily's nostrils; without it she perished.(about her sister) By Charlotte Bronte

Errorbrought remorse, and you pronounced remorse the poison ofexistence By Charlotte Bronte

I wait, with some impatience in my pulse, but no doubt in my breast. By Charlotte Bronte

Flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery. By Charlotte Bronte

But are you sure you are not in the position of those conquerors whose triumphs have cost them too dear? By Charlotte Bronte

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it. By Charlotte Bronte

He is not to them what he is to me. By Charlotte Bronte

But you know very well you are thinking of another they, and that he is not thinking of you By Charlotte Bronte

Do as you please, sir. By Charlotte Bronte

St John Rivers: What will you do with all your fine accomplishments? Jane Eyre: I will save them until they're wanted. They will keep. By Charlotte Bronte

I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations. By Charlotte Bronte

The shadows are as important as the light. By Charlotte Bronte

My feelings towards it can only be paralleled by that of a doting parent towards an idiot child. By Charlotte Bronte

I soon forgot storm in music. By Charlotte Bronte

Remorse is the poison of life. By Charlotte Bronte

She is in a world of private dreams , not here with us ! By Charlotte Bronte

In catalepsy and a dead trance, I studiously held the quick of my nature. By Charlotte Bronte

Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know. By Charlotte Bronte

Nor did I reflect that some herbs, though scentless when entire, yield fragrance when they're bruised. By Charlotte Bronte

Who has words at the right moment? By Charlotte Bronte

Jane accept me quickly. Say, Edward - give me my name - Edward - I will marry you. By Charlotte Bronte