Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Bronte

Novelist, Poet

Charlotte Bronte was a 19th-century English novelist known for her profound exploration of love and identity in works like 'Jane Eyre'.

Heart Eye Men Thinking Believe Night
Born
April 21, 1816
Died
May 31, 1855
Quotes
374
Rank
#74

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"I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses."

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"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. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent."

Lying Years Creative
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"You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it."

Love You Sleep Missing
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"Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day."

Nature Morning Rain
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"It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you."

Patience Smart Evil
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"You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx."

Sphinx
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"Beauty is in the eye of the gazer."

Eye Judging
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"Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank."

Trying Empty Blank
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"A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life."

Depressing Pages Difficult
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"I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one."

Strong Powerful Spring
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"He made me love him without looking at me."

Made Jane
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"The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when the latter came I almost felt it a disturbance, and rather still wished it had held aloof."

Peace Littles Excitement
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"Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us."

Personality Cheerful Matter
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"Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith."

Love Is Hatred Dinner
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"Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you."

Fate Forget You Strive
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"'I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give me back nine pounds, Jane; I’ve a use for it.' 'And so have I, sir,' I returned, putting my hands and my purse behind me. 'I could not spare the money on any account.' 'Little niggard!' said he, 'refusing me a pecuniary request! Give me five pounds, Jane.' 'Not five shillings, sir; nor five pence.' 'Just let me look at the cash.' 'No, sir; you are not to be trusted.'"

Hands Giving Wish
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