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Charlotte Brontë Quotes

Total quotes: 21
“This girl who stands so quiet and grave at the mouth of hell. This girl who is all quietness and sanity and innocence. You wondered why I wanted her?”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Desire, proud, Love and Affection, Special Someone
“Strange energy was in his voice; strange fire in his look.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Tagged: character, Energy
“...human beings must love something...”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Tagged: Love, human beings
“Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go, with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Love, romance, Relationship
“THE human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed;
The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,”
— Charlotte Brontë, The Poems of Charlotte Brontë(Currer Bell)
Tagged: Human Heart, heart, Feelings, emotions, poem, Poetry
“Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Villette(A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
Tagged: Expectations, plans, Disappointment
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own; in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Tagged: Brutally Honest, Love, True Love, Passionate
“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Tagged: Eyes, body language, emotions
“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
Tagged: Fighting, strength, Brave
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Tagged: Motivational, Powerful, Self Confidence, Empowering
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Tagged: Independent, Respect, Friendless
“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Crying, Feelings, emotions, alive
“Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Tagged: beauty, Perspective, POV
“You are human and fallible.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Tagged: human, Weak, Mistakes
“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.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Single, Alone
“I do not think, sir, you have any 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.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Jane Eyre, Strong Women, Independent
“The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Tagged: Listening, Speaking, Engaged
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Literature Quotes, Literary Quotes, Literature
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
Tagged: Happiness, dignified
“He was the first to recognize me, and to love what he saw.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Tagged: Love, Dating, romance
“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.”
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Tagged: hopes, fears, opportunities
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