And the more hurt she gets, the more venomous she grows.
Emily Brontë
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I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I hope Emily gets to go, I think she deserves to go. But if she doesn't, we're OK with that.
BONNI RETZKIN I just wanted Emily to finish it up. She has a little more pitches and (Sam) was getting tired. She ...
THERESA CARROLL The more nervous she gets the better her performance.
ELIZABETH STONEBERG In the teahouses one could hear the most absurd stories, such as how a in a certain place a huge spi...
LAO SHE During my childhood I didn't need to hear stories about evil ogres eating children and so forth; the...
LAO SHE Quite alone both as a novel and as a piece of terror-literature stands the famous Wuthering Heights ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT She's living until the last second. Each time (she does something) she gets a little more hope.
DONNA LAJOIE I know she felt deceived and hurt, but she was more worried about him and the people he was surround...
TINA SINGLETON The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limi...
JAMES A. MICHENER One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, get...
HEDY LAMARR I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
NANCY REAGAN She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be e...
ALAN BRENNERT Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think i...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë There is more pressure on her. She is a known figure. If she says something, it gets reported.
BEN MCKAY I just wish my girls could get a little bit more excited about winning. They are very routine. She (...
JENNY WEINANDY She was making a lot more than the governor. And three months' paid leave. Who gets that?
AMANDA JACKSON She always gets overlooked but she played a great game tonight. She's got the hurt ankle and she's t...
BRAD RIDENOUR When she gets to the world championships, psychologically she'll feel more assured. She looked rathe...
LU SHANZHEN The more she tried to forget, the more she remembered.
T.K. KISER The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
W. H. MURRAY Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.
PAULETTE BATES ALDEN Last year in the tournament Emily realized that she can score, too.
DOUG PICKARTS Republicans may be second-guessing themselves on the decision to engage Sen. Clinton since the more ...
CHUCK TODD We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. The...
PATRICIA HEATON The more she likes me, the more closed off she becomes. The more sarcasm she inflicts on me. Vulnera...
COLLEEN HOOVER It is a great mistake to suppose that a woman with no heart will be an easy creditor in the exchange...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could im...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Emily was beautiful. I knew she was capable of it. She turned it on when she needed to turn it on.
MICHELLE BRUNE Silent lies are more venomous than cruel truths
BEN OLIVEIRA I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read ...
MAURICE SENDAK What an incredible honor, not only for Emily, but also for our program. Emily deserves all of the po...
YVETTE GIROUARD We make love every single day — no matter what. She is the only woman I’ve seen that gets more b...
TARRYN FISHER She’s the kind of woman who wants what she doesn’t have and gets what she wants and then despise...
MARGARET ATWOOD An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is ...
HONORE DE BALZAC An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fa...
MICHAEL ONDAATJE She was last seen last (Friday) up around Mount Emily Road.
LT. DENNIS DINSMORE As she gets sicker, she fades a little more, until I am afraid one day I will wake up and not be abl...
JODI PICOULT She's got a really soft touch and is very accurate at getting the ball around the rim, so she gets s...
DON FLANAGAN She's been on more laps than a napkin.
WALTER WINCHELL The department wants to know more. We won't know where it's going until she gets the information and...
DONNA WHITE The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows old...
HUME CRONYN She's been the best backed today. More than anyone. If she gets up it won't be a good result for us.
GARY DAVIES Kayla was once again steady. She is starting to get a lot more assists because teams are cutting her...
MICKEY BLATNIK The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don't change. It gets more busy, because you g...
DANICA PATRICK You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a r...
AGATHA CHRISTIE She is tough, she is independent, she is edgy, she gets involved in the action,
AALIYAH Emily has the control swing, which will help her game this season. I'm expecting to see some better ...
BUD NASON She is alleging that she is entitled to more, beyond what she got and the problem is that J. Howard ...
ERIC BRUNSTAD If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundr...
JERRY SPINELLI She took on more of a leadership role as a senior. She was a quiet kid, not very talkative in the pa...
JASON NICHOLS She always gets her own cookie. She never gets to the finish line in time.
JOE HEDRICK She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a d...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, an...
DENIS JOHNSON She was surprised because she was Emily, and she did not share Jonathan's frank assessment of cowork...
ALLEGRA GOODMAN Give a woman a job and she grows balls.
JACK GELBER When she gets to college, she'll be more of a perimeter player, but right now, we need her inside. S...
JEFF STABILE The reports say that she's more than frankly obese. She's at 37 percent body fat for a woman, which ...
ELLEN GLICKMAN She kept hitting the lines and going for her shots, but the closer it gets, she misses a smash. They...
KIM CLIJSTERS Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
JOHN MILTON She?s really good, and she more than carries this.
BETH LEONARD The more she turned right the more I turned wrong.
MARK W. BOYER She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hade...
HOLLY BLACK Richard had sold Gillian's piano. He'd offered to ship it out to California, but neither Jess nor Em...
ALLEGRA GOODMAN As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
WALLACE STEVENS She is an expert housekeeper: every time she gets divorced, she keeps the house.
UNKNOWN She tried to get out but the more she tried to get out, the deeper she sank.
MAURICE LUQUE Emily Gutted it out again. She was not as sharp as she'd like to be, but she continues to work hard ...
KRIS VANCAS Emily had an awesome game. She knew that this was going to be her biggest challenge of the season so...
KIM ALLEN Liz is more of strikeout pitcher, so when she pitches it gets kind of boring out there because she s...
GINA RANGO That's as tough as it gets. She just missed out. Talk about resilient. I've probably had to cut her ...
BEN SMITH Oddly, because she has that confidence, the people around her like her more. She becomes more a part...
ELLEN MUTH She could potentially get there before the end of the season. She was four seconds faster than she w...
AARON NIDA She is an amazing athlete and gets to the basket well. Offensive rebounds are her biggest strength a...
JULIE SOLIS Emily is very capable but must remain focused, ... She knows her angles, and makes good stops and cl...
CASEY SILVER I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, s...
PATTY HEARST She is more and more like herself every day,
BRIAN ROBERTSON She became at once more intimate and more exalted.
RICHARD BROOKHISER She needed more help than what she got at the emergency room.
HERB TIETEL She gets very nervous for me. It's hard taking the pressure off . . . I have to deal with a little m...
ELLI OCHOWICZ It was here that she was indeed Woman, for here she gave rein to her ardent and cruel temperament. S...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS At the beginning Scully was much more sceptical than she is now.
GILLIAN ANDERSON There are certainly contemporaries that I admire, like Emily Blunt. I think she is amazing.
ROSAMUND PIKE The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
MICHELANGELO She was the premier American publisher, ... She got tested more than most of them, and she stood up ...
BEN BRADLEE She's much more careful around the baby. She wants to play and she still does . . . but she makes su...
ERIN JONES And that the half-second she is gifted before she remembers the truth is the only reason she gets up...
JODI PICOULT Relax. You're in good hands. Tabby wont hurt you.
She stabbed me!
Damn! I told...
SHERRILYN KENYON She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES She couldn't leave it alone, got more and more addicted.
JEAN RUSSELL She impressed me because she knew even more than me about the character.
FERNANDO MEIRELLES She wanted more and more and her demands were absolutely exorbitant.
BOB MONTGOMERY She had much more control tonight. She set some goals and met them. She pitched extremely well.
DEBBIE HOLCOMBE Emily is one of the most competitive people I have ever coached. She?s a very intense and determined...
BILL MANDIGO She was solid all night, but she seemed tired at the end. She threw a lot more pitches in the sixth ...
DEBBIE HUGHES The older she grows, the farther she walks. It is a good thing the world is round and she is fond of...
EMMA RICHLER She said yes! She could have bargained for more.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA She's the type that when she got hurt, she went straight to physical therapy getting it better, and ...
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EMILY BRONTë Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and ...
EMILY BRONTë Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did no...
EMILY BRONTë Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbea...
EMILY BRONTë You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
EMILY BRONTë It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss m...
EMILY BRONTë It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.
EMILY BRONTë She burned too bright for this world.
EMILY BRONTë Terror made me cruel . . .
EMILY BRONTë Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the ...
EMILY BRONTë He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
EMILY BRONTë Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-br...
EMILY BRONTë A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other...
EMILY BRONTë You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray...
EMILY BRONTë I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
EMILY BRONTë Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have p...
EMILY BRONTë Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot...
EMILY BRONTë If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and ...
EMILY BRONTë I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with ...
EMILY BRONTë Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
EMILY BRONTë As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.
EMILY BRONTë I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to...
EMILY BRONTë And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as ...
EMILY BRONTë My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but ...
EMILY BRONTë I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in the...
EMILY BRONTë I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
EMILY BRONTë I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existe...
EMILY BRONTë If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I cou...
EMILY BRONTë He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee...
EMILY BRONTë Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. T...
EMILY BRONTë My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but ...
EMILY BRONTë He comes with western winds, with evening's
wandering airs,
With that clear dusk of heave...
EMILY BRONTë But, when the days of golden dreams had perished,
And even Despair was powerless to destroy, EMILY BRONTë How clear she shines ! How quietly
I lie beneath her guardian light;
While heaven and ear...
EMILY BRONTë What have those lonely mountains worth revealing?
More glory and more grief than I can tell:
EMILY BRONTë Hope Was but a timid friend;
She sat without the grated den,
Watching how my fate would te...
EMILY BRONTë The old church tower and garden wall
Are black with autumn rain
And dreary winds forebodin...
EMILY BRONTë Riches I hold in light esteem,
And love I laugh to scorn,
And lust of fame was but a dream...
EMILY BRONTë He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself th...
EMILY BRONTë The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I'm tired, tired of being enclosed ...
EMILY BRONTë And from the midst of cheerless gloom
I passed to bright unclouded day.
EMILY BRONTë But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I mu...
EMILY BRONTë My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter ...
EMILY BRONTë It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
EMILY BRONTë I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to ...
EMILY BRONTë I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly throu...
EMILY BRONTë You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt f...
EMILY BRONTë Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse th...
EMILY BRONTë The guest was now the master of Wuthering Heights: he held firm possession, and proved to the attorn...
EMILY BRONTë Honest people don't hide their deeds.
EMILY BRONTë I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!
EMILY BRONTë I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that nei...
EMILY BRONTë Your cold blood cannot be worked into a fever; your veins are full of ice water; but mine are boilin...
EMILY BRONTë I'm now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to f...
EMILY BRONTë They DO live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous externa...
EMILY BRONTë I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every wor...
EMILY BRONTë If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.
EMILY BRONTë He’s not a rough diamond - a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic; he’s a fierce, pitiless, wolfi...
EMILY BRONTë Is she sane?’ asked Mrs. Linton, appealing to me. ‘I’ll repeat our conversation, word for word...
EMILY BRONTë I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free...I'm sure I should be myself were I onc...
EMILY BRONTë Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am alwa...
EMILY BRONTë I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they hav...
EMILY BRONTë She dried her tears, and they did smile
To see her cheeks’ returning glow;
Nor did disce...
EMILY BRONTë If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their result...
EMILY BRONTë The subjects had, indeed, risen vividly on my mind. As I saw them with the spiritual eye, before I a...
EMILY BRONTë It's wrong to anticipate evil.
EMILY BRONTë To sneer at his imperfect attempt was very bad breeding.
EMILY BRONTë I wish I could hold you," she continued bitterly, "till we were both dead!
EMILY BRONTë At that moment the universe appeared to me a vast machine constructed only to produce evil. I almost...
EMILY BRONTë I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
EMILY BRONTë I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails!...
EMILY BRONTë It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!
EMILY BRONTë My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from th...
EMILY BRONTë They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
EMILY BRONTë May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.
EMILY BRONTë Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same
EMILY BRONTë I love my murderer--but yours? How can I?
EMILY BRONTë Are you possessed with a devil,' he pursued, savagely, 'to talk in that manner to me when you are dy...
EMILY BRONTë invariably to me, I know, and to any person who saw her, I should think--refuted more tangible proof...
EMILY BRONTë and firstly, let me beware of the fascination that lurks in Catherine Heathcliff's brilliant eyes. I...
EMILY BRONTë He might as well plant an oak in a flower-pot and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her...
EMILY BRONTë It was a marvelous effort of perspicacity to discover that I did not love her
EMILY BRONTë The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him…
EMILY BRONTë You loved me—then what right had you to leave me? What right—answer me—for the poor fancy you ...
EMILY BRONTë He shall never know how I love him
EMILY BRONTë I got the sexton, who was digging Linton’s grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I op...
EMILY BRONTë Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends ...
EMILY BRONTë It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
EMILY BRONTë Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I'll stay. If he shot me so, I'd expire with a blessing on ...
EMILY BRONTë Je suis sans pitié ! Je suis sans pitié ! Plus les vers se tordent, plus grande est mon envie de l...
EMILY BRONTë I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.
EMILY BRONTë Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promi...
EMILY BRONTë Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more yo...
EMILY BRONTë Then dawns the Invisible; the Unseen its truth reveals;
My outward sense is gone, my inward ess...
EMILY BRONTë If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
EMILY BRONTë If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it will
but grow and gather to itself such explosi...
EMILY Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
ANNE BRONTë I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in co...
ANNE BRONTë I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the mor...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the ge...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you kno...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to st...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
ANNE BRONTë I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Monsieur, if a wife's nature loathes that of the man she is wedded to, marriage must be slavery. Aga...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refi...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rathe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I would always rather be happy than dignified.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings:...
ANNE BRONTë If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your prese...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madn...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the gr...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; an...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Reader, I married him.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and ab...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of br...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne."
"I ask why? I must have a reason. In all re...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë In genere si crede che le donne siano molto quiete: le donne invece provano gli stessi sentimenti de...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
ANNE BRONTë Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about you...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to aband...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking ab...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when ...
ANNE BRONTë It is a long way off, sir"
"From what Jane?"
"From England and from Thornfield: and ___" CHARLOTTE BRONTë No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not o...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë An odour of camphor and burnt vinegar warned me when I came near the fever room: and i passed its do...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obs...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I will give my whole heart and soul to my Maker if I can,' I answered, 'and not one atom more of it ...
ANNE BRONTë I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and certainly never keep, things in order; I...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The word book acted as a transient stimulus
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive ...
ANNE BRONTë You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take...
ANNE BRONTë Cheerfulness, it would appear,
is a matter which depends fully as much on the state
of t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conce...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Evening Solace
The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sea...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, he
admired in othe...
ANNE BRONTë So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided m...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . because we cannot conceive that as we grow up our own minds will become so enlarged and elevat...
ANNE BRONTë Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and ...
ANNE BRONTë How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our o...
ANNE BRONTë I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Tell me, now, fairy as you are, - can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither so...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeeme...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? M...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a n...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding exp...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charm...
ANNE BRONTë I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I deligh...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and s...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivi...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same the...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And what is hell? Can you tell me that?”
“A pit full of fire.”
“And should you lik...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am no bird, no net ensnares me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë