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
regret poison remorse
Remorse is the poison of life.
break-up heartbreak heartbroken
I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
broken-heart dream silence
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
may cost lovers
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.
depressing pages difficult
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
made jane
He made me love him without looking at me.
sunny hours enjoy
Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!
law soul temptation
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?
kindness home rochester
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.
feelings enthusiasm fine
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
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.
thinking impossible natural
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
memories add
Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.
pain taken flower
Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers