Charlotte Brontë > Quotes

“A phase of my life was closing to-night, a new one opening to-morrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“All said I was wicked, and perhaps I might be so; what thought had I been but just conceiving of starving myself to death? That certainly was a crime: and was I fit to die? Or was the vault under the chancel of Gateshead Church an inviting bourne?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“As I told you, I heard Barraclough bellowing in the midst of a conventicle like a possessed bull;”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“The world can understand well enough the process of perishing for want of food: perhaps few persons can enter into or follow out that of going mad from solitary confinement.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“Besides, school would be a complete change: it implied a long journey, an entire separation from Gateshead, an entrance into a new life. “I should indeed like to go to school,”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Where did you last reside?” he now asked. “You are too inquisitive, St. John,” murmured Mary in a low voice; but he leaned over the table and required an answer by a second firm and piercing look.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Unabridged and Complete Edition

“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

“. . . nobody in particular is to blame, that I can see, for the state in which things are . . .”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“He has no indulgence for me”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonized as in that hour left my lips; for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Is he a good man?”
“He is a clergyman, and is said to do a great deal of good.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Несподеленото щастие не може да се нарече щастие. То няма вкус”
― Charlotte Brontë

“A great deal: you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. 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. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should—so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I don’t know. I asked Aunt Reed once, and she said possibly I might have some poor, low relations called Eyre, but she knew nothing about them.” “If you had such, would you like to go to them?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Hablemos tranquilamente durante media hora, mientras las estrellas brillan en el cielo que nos cubre... Sentémonos en este banco del castaño, ya que nuestro destino es no volver a sentarnos juntos más”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Where did you last reside?” he now asked. “You are too inquisitive, St. John,” murmured Mary in a low voice; but he leaned over the table and required an answer by a second firm and piercing look. “The name of the place where, and of the person with whom I lived, is my secret,” I replied concisely.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Unabridged and Complete Edition

“Жалко е, че понякога дори да направиш най-доброто, на което си способен, не е достатъчно”
― Charlotte Brontë

“Daca ea ar fi fost o femeie buna si nobila, inzestrata cu forta, blandete pasiune si bun-simt, as fi purtat o singura lupta decisiva cu doi tigri-gelozia si disperarea; si apoi, cu inima smulsa din piept si sfasiata, as fi admirat-o..i-as fi recunoscut perfectiunea si as fi ramas tacuta pentru tot restul vietii mele; si cu cat mai impecabila ar fi fost superioritatea ei, cu atat mai adanca ar fi fost admiratia mea si cu atat mai adanca linistea mea. Dar asa cum stau de fapt lucrurile, sa privesc eforturile ei de a-l seduce, sa fiu martora esecului lor repetat, iar ea sa nu fie constienta de acest esec, inchipuindu-si, in vanitatea ei, ca fiecare sageata lansata isi nimerea tinta si falindu-se plina de ea cu cu succesul obtinut, in timp ce trufia si multumirea ei de sine indeparta tot mai mult ceea ce dorea ea sa atraga- sa vad toate acestea insemna sa ma aflu in aceslasi timp intr-o provocare permanenta si o constrangere nemiloasa”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Terima kasih, Mr. Rochester, atas kebaikan hatimu yang besar. Aku heran merasa gembira bisa kembali lagi kepadamu: dan di mana pun kau berada, di situlah rumahku, rumahku satu-satunya.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Most true is it that “beauty is in the eye of the gazer.” My master’s colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth—all energy, decision, will—were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me: they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me—that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his. I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, green and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“If Miss Ingram had been a good and noble woman, endowed with force, fervour, kindness, sense, I should have had one vital struggle with two tigers—jealousy and despair: then, my heart torn out and devoured, I should have admired her—acknowledged her excellence, and been quiet for the rest of my days:”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Come what may afterwards, an education secured is an advantage gained - a priceless advantage. Come what may - it is a step towards independency - and one great curse of a single female life is its dependency.. your daughters - as much as your sons - should aim at making their own way honourably through life. Do not wish to keep them at home. Believe me - teachers may be hard worked, ill-paid, and despised - but the girl who stays at home doing nothing is worse off than the hardest wrought and worst paid drudge of a school.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“I should have been glad to love you if you would have let me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Aunque estemos separados por la riqueza y el linaje, tengo algo en mi cerebro y en mi corazón que me vincula mentalmente con él.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I began to wonder why i should struggle to stay alive, when i did not want to live.
It was getting dark again, and i was alone on the moor.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“You have no right to preach to me, you neophyte, that have not passed the porch of life, and are absolutely unacquainted with its mysteries.” “I only remind you of your own words, sir: you said error brought remorse, and you pronounced remorse the poison of existence.” “And who talks of error now?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Unabridged and Complete Edition

“The crows sailing overhead perhaps watched me while I took this survey. I wonder what they thought. They must have considered I was very careful and timid at first, and that gradually I grew very bold and reckless.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“day or two afterwards I learned that Miss Temple, on returning to her own room at dawn, had found me laid in the little crib; my face against Helen Burns’s shoulder, my arms round her neck. I was asleep, and Helen was—dead.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Unabridged and Complete Edition

“Nul être humain qui eût jamais vécu n’aurait pu désirer se voir mieux aimé que je l’étais ; et celui qui m’aimait ainsi, je l’idolâtrais.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It will atone—it will atone. Have I not found her friendless, and cold, and comfortless? Will I not guard, and cherish, and solace her? Is there not love in my heart, and constancy in my resolves? It will expiate at God’s tribunal. I know my Maker sanctions what I do. For the world’s judgment—I wash my hands thereof. For man’s opinion—I defy it.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre