Charlotte Brontë > Quotes

“El convencionalismo no es moralidad. La superioridad moral no es religión. Atacar primero no significa asestar el último golpe.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings;”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“The longer we live, the more our experience widens; the less prone are we to judge our neighbour's conduct”
― Charlotte Brontë

“My wish was to get a more thorough comprehension of this fraternal alliance: to note with how much of the brother he would demean himself when we met again; to prove how much of the sister was in my own feelings; to discover whether I could summon a sister’s courage, and he a brother’s frankness. He came. Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“I will, in a few words. You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that is in you. You are sick; because the best of feelings, the highest and sweetest to man, keeps far away from you.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Știu că poezia n-a murit, nici geniul nu s-a pierdut, nici Mammon n-a dobândit puterea de a le încătușa sau ucide; amândouă vor arăta iarăși, într-o bună zi, că trăiesc și-și vor afirma existența, prezența și puterea. Îngeri puternici, aflați la adăpost în cer, zâmbesc când sufletele josnice izbândesc și cele slabe își plâng restriștea. Poezia distrusă? Geniul alungat? Nu! Mediocritate? Nu! Nu îngădui invidiei să-ți strecoare în cuget aces gând. Nu, ele nu numai că trăiesc, ci domnesc și răsplătesc, iar fără înrâurirea lor divină răspândită pretutindeni, te-ai afla în iad - în iadul propriei tale nimicnicii.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“La maggior scienza che un uomo possa avere è quella di conoscere sé stesso e sapere a quale meta tendono i propri passi.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“-and that brow professes to say - "I can live alone, if self-respect and circumstance require me to do so. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure within me...”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Oamenii au totdeauna nevoie să iubească ceva și, negăsind nici un lucru mai vrednic de dragostea mea, o iubeam din toată inima pe păpușa aceea zdrențăroasă ca o sperietoare de ciori în miniatură.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve about. We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest. I leave no one to regret me much: I have only a father; and he is lately married, and will not miss me. By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.” “But where are you going to, Helen? Can you see? Do you know?” “I believe; I have faith: I am going to God.” “Where is God? What is God?” “My Maker and yours, who will never destroy what He created.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Unabridged and Complete Edition

“To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre Die Waise von Lowood

“I see no enemy to a fortunate issue but in the brow; and that brow professes to say,—‘I can live alone, if self-respect and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure, born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld; or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.’ The forehead declares, ‘Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“He carried his hat in his hand; his uncovered head, his face and fine brow were most handsome and manly. His features were not delicate, not slight like those of a woman, nor were they cold, frivolous, and feeble; though well cut, they were not so chiselled, so frittered away, as to lose in expression or significance what they gained in unmeaning symmetry. Much feeling spoke in them at times, and more sat silent in his eye.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“I, Lucy Snowe, plead guiltless of that curse, an overheated and discursive imagination; but, whenever, opening a room-door, i found her seated in a corner alone, her head in her pigmy hand, that room seemed to me not inhabited, but haunted.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“And was Mr. Rochester now ugly in my eyes? No, reader: gratitude, and many associations, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object I best liked to see; his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Mejor es la comida de legumbres donde hay amor, que de ternero cebado donde hay odio". Entonces no habria cambiado las privaciones de Lowood por todos los lujos de Gateshead”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It is right to look our life-accounts bravely in the face now and then, and settle them honestly. And he is a poor self-swindler who lies to himself while he reckons the items, and sets down under the head—happiness that which is misery. Call anguish—anguish, and despair—despair; write both down in strong characters with a resolute pen: you will the better pay your debt to Doom.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“By what instinct do you pretend to distinguish between a fallen seraph of the abyss and a messenger from the eternal throne, between a guide and a seducer”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“He paused for an answer: and what was I to say? Oh, for some good spirit to suggest a judicious and satisfactory response! Vain aspiration! The west wind whispered in the ivy round me; but no gentle Ariel borrowed its breath as a medium of speech: the birds sang in the tree-tops; but their song, however sweet, was inarticulate.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger - pg 113”
― Charlotte Brontë

“I loved him very much—more than I could trust myself to say—more than words had power to express.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I feel I have adequate cause to be happy, and I will be happy. Goodbye!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Es inútil decir que los seres humanos deberían estar satisfechos de llevar una vida tranquila; han de tener acción, y si no pueden encontrarla, la provocarán de un modo u otro.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“I could bend her with my finger and thumb: and what good would it do if I bent, if I uptore, if I crushed her? Consider that eye: consider the resolute, wild, free thing looking out of it, defying me, with more than courage-with a stern triumph. Whatever I do with its cage, I cannot get at it-the savage, beautiful creature! If I tear, if I rend the slight prison, my outrage will only let the captive loose. Conqueror I might be of the house; but the inmate would escape to heaven before I could call myself possessor of its clay dwelling place.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It was as if a band of Italian days had come from the South, like a flock of glorious passenger birds, and lighted to rest them on the cliffs of Albion.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“A esperança sorri aos que lutam.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“Love, when he comes wandering like a lost angel to our door, is at once admitted, welcomed, embraced. His quiver is not seen; if his arrows penetrate, their wound is like a thrill of new life.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“-...tiene frío porque se encuentra sola; no hay contacto que despierte el fuego que tiene dentro. Está enferma, porque está privada de los sentimientos más elevados y dulces que puede conocer el ser humano. Es tonta, porque, aunque sufre, no pide ayuda ni da un solo paso para acercarse adonde ésta la espera - Mr. Rochester”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“A kind fairy, in my absence, had surely dropped the required suggestion on my pillow; for as I lay down, it came quietly and naturally to my mind.—”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It is in vain to say that human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they must.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre