I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEAll 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.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.
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I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy.” Mr. Rochester
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What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before ‘the writing on the wall’ and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation.
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Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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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.
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I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.
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Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
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My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world – the … affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other.
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The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.
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It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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