Charlotte Brontë > Quotes

“I sat down quite disembarrassed. A reception of finished politeness would probably have confused me: I could not have returned or repaid it by answering grace and elegance on my part; but harsh caprice laid me under no obligation; on the contrary, a decent quiescence, under the freak of manner, gave me the advantage.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“All the scoundrels [..] who broke innocent hearts with impunity...”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“A tread creaked on the stairs at last. Leah made her appearance; but it was only to intimate that tea was ready in Mrs. Fairfax’s room. Thither I repaired, glad at least to go downstairs; for that brought me, I imagined, nearer to Mr. Rochester’s presence.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Unabridged and Complete Edition

“faculties, rather than as an adventure of life and death. There is nothing like taking all you do at a moderate estimate: it keeps mind and body tranquil; whereas grandiloquent notions are apt to hurry both into fever.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest — blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. I know no weariness of my Edward’s society: he knows none of mine, any more than we each do the pulsation of the heart that beats in our separate bosoms; consequently, we are ever together. To be together is for us to be at once free as in solitude, as gay as in company. We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but more animated and an audible thinking. All my confidence is bestowed on him, all his confidence is devoted to me; we are precisely suited in character – perfect concord is the result.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“A vida sempre é a vida, independentemente das suas dores.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villete

“He inherited the lines of his mother’s features, however; also her good teeth, her stature (or the promise of her stature, for he was not yet full-grown), and, what was better, her health without flaw, and her spirits of that tone and equality which are better than a fortune to the possessor.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“and his wife might, I verily believe, be the very happiest woman the sun shines on.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Um sentimento selvagem e desumano, uma paixão que poderia fervilhar e brilhar na má essência de um gênio do mal, um fogo que
poderia formar o centro tormentoso — a alma eternamente sofredora de um magnata do mundo infernal; e, pela sua insaciável e interminável devastação, acarreta a execução da sentença que o condena a levar consigo o inferno, aonde quer que ele vá.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“With animals I feel I am Adam's son; the heir of him to whom dominion was given over "every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“Las leyes y los principios no son solo para los momentos que están libres de tentaciones, sino para momentos como este, cuando el cuerpo y el alma se amotinan contra su rigor. Cuanto más severos me parezcan, menos debo violarlos. Si pudiera olvidarlos por mi propia conveniencia, ¿qué valor tendrían?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Oare jertfă-i a avea dreptul să-l îmbrățișez pe cel pe care-l respect, să sărut buzele pe care le iubesc, să mă sprijin de cel în care am încredere? Dacă e așa, negreșit că în jertfă stă suprema mea fericire.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Nessuna ironia mi suona più vuota in questo mondo di quando mi si dice di «coltivare» la felicità. Che cosa significa un consiglio simile? La felicità non è una patata, che si pianta nell’umidità e si aiuta a crescere concimandola. La felicità è una gloria che splende su di noi da lontano, dal cielo. È una rugiada divina che l’anima, in certe mattine estive, sente cadere goccia a goccia su di sé, giù dai fiori amaranto e dai frutti dorati del Paradiso.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“He indulged her, whispering, however, with gravity: “Don’t tell my mother or Lucy; they wouldn’t approve.” “Nor do I,” said she, passing into another tone and manner as soon as she had fairly assayed the beverage, just as if it had acted upon her like some disenchanting draught, undoing the work of a wizard: “I find it anything but sweet; it is bitter and hot, and takes away my breath. Your old October was only desirable while forbidden. Thank you, no more.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the year when the icy January wind carries over the waste at once the dirge of departing winter, and the prophecy of coming spring. The perishing birds, however, cannot thus understand the blast before which they shiver; and as little can the suffering soul recognise, in the climax of its affliction, the dawn of its deliverance. Yet let whoever grieves still cling fast to love and faith in God: God will never deceive, never finally desert him. 'Whom He loveth, He chasteneth.' These words are true, and should not be forgotten.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“Halo!" serunya, dan dia menutup buku dan pensilnya. "Datang juga kau! Kemarilah, kalau kau tidak keberatan.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I was no bright lady's shadow.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“Si los hombres pudieran vernos como realmente somos, se asombrarían; pero los hombres más inteligentes y agudos se engañan a menudo con respecto a las mujeres: no saben verlas a su auténtica luz, no las entienden, ni para bien ni para mal: la mujer que consideran buena es una cosa extraña, medio ángel, medio muñeca; la mujer que creen mala es casi siempre un demonio. ¡Tener que oír, además, cómo se extasían con las creaciones de otros, adorando a la heroína de tal poema, novela u obra teatral, tachándola de hermosa, de divina! Hermosa y divina puede que lo sea, pero casi siempre es totalmente artificial, falsa como la rosa de mi mejor sombrero, que tengo aquí. Si dijera lo que pienso sobre este asunto; si diera mi verdadera opinión sobre algunos de los principales personajes femeninos de obras de primera categoría, ¿dónde estaría? Muerta bajo un montón de piedras vengadoras en media hora.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“mientras que usted, en cambio, filosofa sobre el asunto.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It was my time to assume ascendancy. My powers were in play and in force.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that at times strangely wills and works for itself.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“To this crib I always took my doll; 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.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“What is it about?" I continued. I hardly know where I found the hardihood thus to open a conversation with a stranger; the step was contrary to my nature and habits: but I think her occupation touched a chord of sympathy somewhere; for I too liked reading, though of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.”
― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

“Pedepsiti-i trupul pentru a-i salva sufletul..”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“She seemed to me the emblem of my past life; and here I was now to array myself to meet, the dread, but adored, type of my unknown future day.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Life, however, was yet in my possession, with all its requirements, and pains, and responsibilities. The burden must be carried; the want provided for; the suffering endured; the responsibility fulfilled. I set out.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Unabridged and Complete Edition

“I am glad you are no relation of mine: I will never call you aunt again as long as I live. I will never come to see you when I am grown up; and if any one asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you treated me with miserable cruelty.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre