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
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.
believe oddities perfect
I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.
fairy born humans
You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!
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.
firsts foundation affection
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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?
heart insults-you necks
Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you.
men agony gold
I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless.
love-of-my-life faces lips
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.
children feelings analysis
Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.
sex flirty flirting
Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
live-life reality two
The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.
distance years understanding
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.
humans
You are human and fallible.