Charlotte Brontë > Quotes

“Vaikka koko maailma vihaisi sinua ja pitäisi sinua pahana, mutta omatuntosi hyväksyisi sinut ja vapauttaisi sinut syytöksistä, et olisi vailla ystävää."
"En, tiedän että voisin hyväksyä itseni, mutta se ei riitä! Jos muut eivät rakasta minua, kuolen mieluummin kuin elän - en jaksa kestää yksinäisyyttä ja vihaa, Helen. Katsohan, saadakseni osakseni hiukan rakkautta sinun tai neiti Templen tai jonkun muun rakastamani ihmisen taholta antaisin mielelläni vaikka katkaista käteni, tai antautuisin härän puskettavaksi, tai asettuisin seisomaan potkivan hevosen taakse, niin että se voisi iskeä kavioillaan rintaani -"
"Vaikene jo, Jane, sinulla on liian suuret luulot ihmisten rakkaudesta. Olet liian kiihkeä, liian raju. - -”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“What is your name beside Burns?
Helen”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Am I hideous, Jane?"
"Very, sir: you always were, you know.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity. ”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Fire rises out of the lunar mountains: when she is cold, I’ll carry her up to a peak, and lay her down on the edge of a crater.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The reel of silk has run smoothly enough so far; but I always knew there would come a knot and a puzzle: here it is. ”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“implacable man can inflict on one who has offended”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“In her past were sweet passages, in her future rosy hopes.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“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. ”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“No sight so sad as that of a naughty child,” he began, “especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?” “They go to hell,” was my ready and orthodox answer. “And what is hell? Can you tell me that?” “A pit full of fire.” “And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?” “No, sir.” “What must you do to avoid it?” I deliberated a moment; my answer, when it did come, was objectionable: “I must keep in good health, and not die.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Yes,--yes--the end is not so difficult; if I had only a brain active enough to ferret out the means of attaining it.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It was not a bright or splendid summer evening, though fair and soft: […] its blue—where blue was visible—was mild and settled, and its cloud strata high and thin. The west, too, was warm: no watery gleam chilled it—it seemed as if there was a fire lit, an altar burning behind its screen of marbled vapour, and out of apertures shone a golden redness.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I had nothing to say to these words: they were not new to me: my very first recollections of existence included hints of the same kind. This reproach of my dependence had become a vague sing-song in my ear: very painful and crushing, but only half intelligible.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Nu prin violenta infrangi cel mai bine ura - si, cu siguranta, nici cu o razbunare nu vindeci ranile.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“She looks as if she were thinking of something beyond her punishment—beyond her situation: of something not round nor before her.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. ”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Perhaps the less said on that subject the better, Mr. Brocklehurst.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“doat”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet - so deadly sad - that to read one line of it would dissolve any courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank: something like the world when the deluge was gone by.”
― Charlotte Bronte

“I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child—though equally dependent and friendless—Mrs. Reed would have endured my presence more complacently; her children would have entertained for me more of the cordiality of fellow-feeling; the servants would have been less prone to make me the scapegoat of the nursery.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Unabridged and Complete Edition

“human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“three”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I don't think, you have a right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have: your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

- Jane Eyre”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me;”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Where, indeed, does the moon not look well? What is the scene, confined or expansive, which her orb does not hallow? Rosy or fiery, she mounted now above a not distant bank; even while we watched her flushed ascent, she cleared to gold, and in very brief space, floated up stainless into a now calm sky.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“it is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“But not of late years are we about to speak; we are going back to the beginning of this century; late years—present years are dusty, sun-burnt, hot, arid; we will evade the noon, forget it in siesta, pass the mid-day in slumber, and dream of dawn.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“the”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre