Charlotte Brontë > Quotes

“He uttered words with which this page shall never be polluted.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“She did not exist: she would not be born till tomorrow, some time after eight o'clock a.m.; and I would wait to be assured she had come into the world alive before I assigned to her all that property.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I still felt as a wanderer on the face of the earth; but I experienced firmer trust in myself and my own powers, and less withering dread of oppression. The gaping wound of my wrongs, too, was now quite healed, and the flame of resentment extinguished.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“If he expects me to talk for the mere sake of talking and showing off, he will find he has addressed himself to the wrong person.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man.  I will hold to the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad—as I am now.  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; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be.  If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?  They have a worth—so I have always believed; and if I cannot believe it now, it is because I am insane—quite insane: with my veins running fire, and my heart beating faster than I can count its throbs. ”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Donnez-moi la main! I see we worship the same God, in the same spirit, though by different rites.”
― charlotte bronte, Villette

“Here pause: pause at once. There is enough said. Trouble no quiet, kind heart; leave sunny imaginations hope. Let ir be their to conceive the delight of joy born again fresh out of great terror, the rapture of rescue from peril, the wondrous reprieve from dread, the fruition of return. Let them picture union and a happy succeeding life.

Madame Beck prospered all the days of her life; so did Père Silas; Madame Walravens fulfulled her ninetieth year before she died. Farewell.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“Divine justice pursued its course; disasters came thick on me: I was forced to pass through the valley of the shadow of death. His chastisements are mighty; and one smote me which has humbled me for ever. You know I was proud of my strength: but what is it now, when I must give it over to foreign guidance, as a child does its weakness? Of late, Jane - only - only of late - I began to see and acknowledge the hand of God in my doom. I began to experience remorse, repentance; the wish for reconcilement to my Maker. I began to pray: very brief prayers they were, but very sincere.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“A new creed became mine - a belief in happiness.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. We are, and must be one and all burdened with faults in this world: but the time will soon come when, I trust, we shall put them off in putting off our corruptible bodies; when debasement and sin will fall from us with this cumbrous frame of flesh and only the spark of the spirit will remain...”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and certainly never keep, things in order; I am careless; I forget rules; I read when I should learn my lessons; I have no method; and sometimes I say, like you, I cannot bear to be subjected to systematic arrangements.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“But I do think hardly of you...and I'll tell you why--not so much because you refused to give me shelter, or regarded me as an impostor, as because you just now made it a species of reproach that I had no 'brass' and no house. Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Religion called – Angels beckoned – God commanded – life rolled together like a scroll – death's gates opening showed eternity beyond.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“حزينة لدرجة أن أقل الكلمات تجلب الدموع فى عينيك”
― Charlotte Brontë

“I’m just going to write because I cannot help it.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“could not forget your conduct to me, Jane--the fury with which you once turned on me; the tone in which you declared you abhorred me the worst of anybody in the world; the unchildlike look and voice with which you affirmed that the very thought of me made you sick, and asserted that I had treated you with miserable cruelty. I could not forget my own sensations when you thus started up and poured out the venom of your mind: I felt fear as if an animal that I had struck or pushed had looked up at me with human eyes and cursed me in a man's voice.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Do not let me think of them too often, too much, too fondly,' I implored: 'let me be content with a temperate draught of this living stream: let me not run athirst, and apply passionately to its welcome waters: let me not imagine in them a sweeter taste than earth's fountains know.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“Non era stata mia intenzione amarlo, e avevo fatto di tutto per estirpare dal mio animo i germi dell'amore che vi avevo scovato; e ora, non appena l'avevo rivisto, essi risorgevano spontaneamente più forti e più gagliardi! Anche senza che lo guardassi si faceva amare.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“These were vile discoveries; but except for the treachery of concealment, I should have made them no subject of reproach to my wife, even when I found her nature wholly alien to mine, her tastes obnoxious to me, her cast of mind common, low, narrow, and singularly incapable of being led to anything higher, expanded to anything larger—when I found that I could not pass a single evening, nor even a single hour of the day with her in comfort; that kindly conversation could not be sustained between us, because whatever topic I started, immediately received from her a turn at once coarse and trite, perverse and imbecile—when I perceived that I should never have a quiet or settled household, because no servant would bear the continued outbreaks of her violent and unreasonable temper, or the vexations of her absurd, contradictory, exacting orders—even then I restrained myself: I eschewed upbraiding, I curtailed remonstrance; I tried to devour my repentance and disgust in secret; I repressed the deep antipathy I felt.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint: the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him. I felt at times as if he were my relation rather than my master: yet he was imperious sometimes still; but I did not mind that; I saw it was his way. So happy, so gratified did I become with this new interest added to life, that I ceased to pine after kindred: my thin crescent-destiny seemed to enlarge; the blanks of existence were filled up; my bodily health improved; I gathered flesh and strength.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Where the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in making written language the medium of better utterance than faltering lips can achieve?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“It seemed to me that, were I a gentleman like him, I would take to my bosom only such a wife as I could love; but the very obviousness of the advantages to the husband’s own happiness, offered by this plan, convinced me that there must be arguments against its general adoption of which I was quite ignorant; otherwise I felt sure all the world would act as I wished to act.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“A sorrowful indifference to existence often pressed on me--a despairing resignation to reach betimes the end of all things earthly”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“When I recall the tranquil, and even happy mood in which I passed those hours, and remember, at the same time, the position in which I was placed: its hazardous--some would have said its hopeless--character; I feel that, as 'Stone walls do not a prison make/Nor iron bars--a cage' so peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“You are not your wounds.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“Having thus acknowledged what I owe those who have aided and approved me, I turn to another class; a small one, so far as I know, but not, therefore, to be overlooked. I mean the timorous or carping few who doubt the tendency of such books as “Jane Eyre:” in whose eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; whose ears detect in each protest against bigotry—that parent of crime—an insult to piety, that regent of God on earth. I would suggest to such doubters certain obvious distinctions; I would remind them of certain simple truths.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I knew he would soon strike, and while dreading the blow, I mused on the disgusting and ugly appearance of him who would presently deal it.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Lingerer, my brain is on fire with impatience; and you tarry so long!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“من در گیتسهد هال وصله ناجور به حساب می‌آمدم. شبیه بقیه نبودم. با خانم رید و بچه‌هایش و اعوان و انصارشان هیچ وجه مشترکی نداشتم. دوستم نداشتند و من هم زیاد دوست‌شان نداشتم. مجبور نبودند به کسی محبت کنند که با هیچ‌کدام‌شان همدلی نداشت. موجود ناسازی بودم. از لحاظ خلق و خو و میل و استعداد و علایق نقطه مقابل آنها بودم. مثل شی بی‌مصرفی بود که نه به دردشان می‌خورد و نه لذتی به آنها می‌داد. اصلاً مخل کارشان بودم. باعث می‌دم عصبانی بشوند و تحقیرم کند. می‌دانم که اگر بچه سرحال و تند و تیز و بی‌خیال و پرجنب‌وجوش و خوشگلی بودم و اهل بگوبخند – با آن که باز هم سربار و بی‌کس بودم – خانم رید حضورم را راحت‌تر تحمل می‌کرد، بچه‌هایش همدلی و همراهی بیشتری از خود نشان می‌‌دادند، خدمتکارها هم کمتر مرا سپر بلای کارهای خودشان می‌کردند.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I feared nothing but interruption, and that came too soon.”
― Charlotte Brontë