Charlotte Brontë > Quotes

“I was tempted to cease struggling with him - to rush down the torrent of his will into the gulf of his existence, and there lose my own.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied: or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I am no bird and no net ensnares me”
― Charlotte Brontë, JANE EYRE

“I have little left in myself — I must have you. The world may laugh — may call me absurd, selfish — but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Peale selle võin nende tõekspidamiste alusel nii selgesti mõista kurjategijat ja ta süütegu: võin puhtsüdamlikult andestada esimesele, kuigi ma jälestan teist. Ka ei lase need tõekspidamised eales kättemaksul mu südamerahu eksitada, alandusel liiga sügavasti mind solvata, ülekohtul ilmaski mind liiga maha rusuda, — meelerahus käin ma oma elurada lõpuni.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“No soy un pájaro y ninguna red me atrapa. Soy un ser humano libre con una voluntad independiente.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“Am I a liar in your eyes?’ he asked passionately. ‘Little sceptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss Ingram? None: and that you know. What love has she for me? None: as I have taken pains to prove: I caused a rumour to reach her that my fortune was not a third of what was supposed, and after that I presented myself to see the result; it was coldness both from her and her mother. I would not – I could not – marry Miss Ingram. You – you strange, you almost unearthly thing! – I love you as my own flesh. You – poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are – I entreat to accept me as a husband.”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey

“Externals have a great effect on the young. I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures, as well as its thorns and toils.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“Size bundan önce de söylemiştim bir kez: Ciddiliğinizle, sessizliğinizle, anlayışınızla, yakınlığınızla siz herkesin sır ortağı olmak üzere yaratılmışsınız. Hem zaten karşımdaki kafayı, ruhu yakından tanıyorum. Anlattıklarımdan mikrop kapmayacak kadar sağlam bir ruh bu.. Kimselere benzemeyen eşsiz bir ruh..”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“And again, as she intercepted his cup in passing, and would stir the sugar and put in the cream herself, 'I always did it for you at home, papa: nobody could do it as well, not even your own self.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“Così, avendo Borwick sulle ginocchia, ero felice, felice a modo mio.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“« Parce que si vous refusez, j’essaierai la violence. »”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.” — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Jūtas bez saprāta ir ūdeņaina dzira, bet saprāts bez mierinošām jūtām ir pārāk rūgts un ass kumoss cilvēka rīklei.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and to such shades of peculiarity as were engrained in my nature—shades, certainly not striking enough to interest, and perhaps not prominent enough to offend, but born in and with me, and no more to be parted with than my identity—by slow degrees I became a frequenter of this strait and narrow path.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“I found him a very patient, very forbearing, and yet an exacting master: he expected me to do a great deal; and when I fulfilled his expectations, he, in his own way, fully testified his approbation. By degrees, he acquired a certain influence over me that took away my liberty of mind: his praise and notice were more restraining than his indifference. I could no longer talk or laugh freely when he was by, because a tiresomely importunate instinct reminded me that vivacity (at least in me) was distasteful to him. I was so fully aware that only serious moods and occupations were acceptable, that in his presence every effort to sustain or follow any other became vain: I fell under a freezing spell. When he said “go,” I went; “come,” I came; “do this,” I did it. But I did not love my servitude: I wished, many a time, he had continued to neglect me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre: The Original 1847 Unabridged and Complete Edition

“- Parece acalorada y altiva.
- No tan altiva como usted. El suyo es el orgullo monstruoso que finge humildad.
- Soy un asalariado: sé cuál es mi lugar.
- Soy una mujer: sé cuál es el mío.
- Soy pobre: he de ser orgulloso.
- He de someterme a ordenanzas y tengo obligaciones tan rigurosas como las suyas.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“CHAPTER I”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“He took on their insolent pride the revenge of the purest charity—housing, caring for, befriending them, so as no son could have done it more tenderly and efficiently.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“I know he has a bad nature,' said Catherine: 'he's your son. Bu I'm glad I've a better, to forgive it; and I know he loves me, and for that reason I love him. Mr. Heathcliff, you have nobody to love you; and, however miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery! You are miserable, are you not? Lonely, like the devil, and envious like him? Nobody loves you--nobody will cry for you when you die! I wouldn't be you!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Wuthering Heights: Abridged and Retold, with Notes and Free Audiobook

“He deemed me born under his star: he seemed to have spread over me its beam like a banner.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“Ne treba da prodam dušu da bih ostvarila sreću. Unutar mene posedujem blago koje može da me održi u životu čak iako sva spoljašnja zadovoljstva nestanu, ili budu ponuđena po ceni koju ja ne želim da platim.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you're alive”
― Charlotte Brontë

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. 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 time 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. Preconceived opinions, foregone determinations, are all I have at this hour to stand by: there I plant my foot.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Είχε όμως καταπιαστεί, αυτή τη στιγμή, μ' ένα πλάσμα οπλισμένο με το θάρρος της απελπισίας.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Τζέιν Έιρ

“Then, too, imagination is a strong, restless faculty, which claims to be heard and exercised: are we to be deaf to her cry, and insensate to her struggles? When she shows us bright pictures, are we never to look at them, and try to reproduce them? And when she is eloquent, and speaks rapidly and urgently in our ear, are we not to write her dictation?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Life of Charlotte Brontë Volume I and II

“In that sense I do feel apprehensive - I have no wish to talk nonsense.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“In the tranquillity she imparted there was an alloy of inexpressible sadness. I felt the impression of woe as she spoke, but I could not tell whence it came.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The noble and high born cannot endure grief.”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Spell

“To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company. We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking. All my confidence is bestowed on him, all his confidence devoted to me; we are precisely suited in character.
-perfect concord is the result.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre