Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Brontëwas an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. She first published her worksunder the pen name Currer Bell...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 April 1816
Charlotte Bronte quotes about
[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived.
past dwell-on-the-past brighter
What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?
firsts foundation affection
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
cheer flower home
In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—November seasons of disaster, when a man's hearth and home would be cold indeed, without the clear, cheering gleam of intellect.
fairy born humans
You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!
believe oddities perfect
I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.
believe sunshine life-is
I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.
heart hands giving
Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations.
heart insults-you necks
Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you.
eye use ears
Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly withdrawn, and the sound of what consoles must be silenced.
hands answers rochester
I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester
people long shadow
For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and to such shadows of peculiarity as were engrained in my nature - shades, certainly not striking enough to interest, and perhaps not prominent enough to offend, but born in and with me, and no more to be parted with than my identity - but slow degrees I became a frequenter of this straight narrow path.
eye pride desire
Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes
eye heart expression
I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.