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
sphinx
You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx.
forgive-me forgiving moments
Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.
mean principles propensity
Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.
trust-myself jane
I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express." - Jane Eyre
mind want easy
I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations.
mistake wish would-be
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.
self rivers mountain
Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.
answers he-left-me left
And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
thinking impossible natural
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
running choices promise
What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.
departure strikes torn
...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.
strong selfish evil
I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.
heart might enough
My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it.
believe i-believe villette
I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.