He shall never know how I love him
Emily Brontë
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...he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is...
EMILY BRONTE Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think i...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Quite alone both as a novel and as a piece of terror-literature stands the famous Wuthering Heights ...
H.P. LOVECRAFT The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limi...
JAMES A. MICHENER I never met him, ... How do we know he won't choke?
FRANKIE BONES He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I ...
BIBLE He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself th...
EMILY BRONTë The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion the horse, how he shall take his...
WILLIAM BLAKE The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take hi...
WILLIAM BLAKE Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 Those blessed ones of ...
ST. ANSELM There shall never be another Ellie. We shall always be grateful for the chance we had to know him.
PETER ANGELOS He is my brother. I know him. I lived with him for years. I know how much he fears God.
SHEIKH AHMAD God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
JULIAN OF NORWICH To-day I shall be strong,
No more shall yield to wrong,
Shall squander life no more;
...
A.E. HOUSMAN I don't know how good he is. I've never leaned on him hard enough to find out. I haven't really aske...
DICK BRIGHT Jon Hamm - I know him. I love him.
JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN I don't know how to describe it, but the more I stare at him, the more I see his grief wrapped aroun...
JASMINE WARGA How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do th...
JOHANN VON GOETHE How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do th...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE He will know how much his dad loved him. He loved him so much, and that's what I want him to always ...
MAE RHYNES The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really...
JANE AUSTEN The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really...
JANE AUSTEN I wish I could hold you," she continued bitterly, "till we were both dead!
EMILY BRONTë He shall have chariots easier than air,
That I will have invented; . . . And thyself,
That art...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Old dog Tray's ever faithful;
Grief can not drive him away;
He is gentle, he is kind--
I...
STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER Because of that, he didn't know how to love someone who actually loved him. He had learned a twisted...
JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can ...
JANE AUSTEN True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is app...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is app...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is app...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Once he is drafted, you never know what could happen. We'd obviously love to have him back for next ...
ZORAN RAJCIC Harrison Ford... I love him. He's a man's man.
SHERILYN FENN He's got to know about personal responsibility. What happened hurt me a lot. But I want him to know ...
KIRK KENNEDY Yes I love him. I love him more than anything else in this world and there is nothing that I would l...
NEIL GAIMAN If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!
CRAIG FERGUSON Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, ...
BIBLE To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never rece...
WILLIAM WALLACE The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
BIBLE He clung to her more tightly, knotting his hands in her hair, trying to tell her, with the press of ...
CASSANDRA CLARE You were always saying you were gonna shoot him," he mutters, but it's kind of half-hearted. "Stupid...
RICHARD RIDER Though he slay me, I shall yet trust Him.
BIBLE I'd love to get him in here. See how he can change it around, not continue to make those mistakes. I...
RAY STEWART The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really...
JANE AUSTEN The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really...
JANE AUSTEN He grins. Unbelievable how gorgeous he is. And that he's mine. He loves me and I love him and how ra...
CYNTHIA HAND I don't know how far a man could travel... I don't know how many roads he needs to cross... I don't ...
ALON CALINAO DY You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how...
BIBLE I told him he never instructed me on how to handle any hurricane contingency plans.
DAVID BAILIFF I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.
LILLIE LANGTRY Orion:“Where shall I shoot him?”
Eros grinned. “Considering he won’t even feel the arro...
TINA FOLSOM Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him--this is a...
ELIZABETH PAYSON PRENTISS I don't know what he's thinking. I definitely felt like he thinks I said something, but I know him a...
AMADO GUEVARA No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS -Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you d...
SUZANNE COLLINS I don't know how he kept it together. I don't know, maybe the good Lord has His hand on him. I've ne...
MARK DEAUGUSTINO You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a r...
AGATHA CHRISTIE All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell a...
BIBLE Please tell him that we are so very proud of him. And I don't even know how he did today.
DAVE RADER ...I will not allow books to prove any thing."
"But how shall we prove any thing?"
"We nev...
JANE AUSTEN WHEN YOU TRULY LOVE SOMEBODY, YOU CAN'T BE ANGRY AT HIM, NO MATTER HOW MUCH HE HAD HURT YOU. WHEN YO...
SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST If I met him just another day, I could have told how much I loved him, how much I cared for him, how...
NISHI DE SILVA I understand I have no place here. I understand I am lost in the god's eye. I understand I must find...
KAREN MILLER If any man has left us for fear of Nero, I shall not account him a coward; but I shall hail as a phi...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 I saw full surely in this and in all, that e...
JULIANA OF NORWICH For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spit...
BIBLE I have a younger brother that is in between him and I. He has two nieces that he's never met, he has...
BRANDI KNIGHT He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
BIBLE How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
FERDOWSI For this is the Great Deed that our Lord shall do, in which Deed He shall save His word and He shall...
JULIAN OF NORWICH How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has tu...
WOODY ALLEN From My Life's Work by Cardinal Newman
God has created me to do Him some definite service...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN And we will share a drink. Yeah we will share our fears and they will know how I love them.They will...
CONOR OBERST He loves his sailors, he loves his Navy, no bones about that, ... He never expects anything in retur...
ROBERT E. LEE Unfortunately, I never saw Pele play. What I know of him is through my grandfather, my dad's dad...
NEYMAR I don't really know. I've never rescued a girl I love from the Furies before." He looked alarmed as ...
MEG CABOT he had never imagined she would leave him for messing around with girls he would never have married ...
DOROTHY ALLISON And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he th...
BIBLE To live of love, it is when Jesus sleeps To sleep near Him, though stormy waves beat nigh. Deem...
THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
MOTHER TERESA We will do whatever we need to do to have him ready. I asked him just a little while ago, 'At 35, wh...
GIL REYES Just the idea of him with a love interest is mind-boggling, ... I don't know how it could be handled...
STEVE CARELL I’m scared of him. I’m disgusted by the vile monster he becomes, this beast he lets out. But I s...
KARINA HALLE I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want...
CASSANDRA CLARE He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
BIBLE Baby bye
Here's a fly,
Let us watch him, you and I,
How he crawls
Up the walls
...
THEODORE TILTON He who shall hurt the little wren / Shall never be beloved by men.
WILLIAM BLAKE We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by ...
ROBERT GOTTLIEB I don't know how good he is, but he's a great running back. He has a great future ahead of him. I've...
BILLY TURNER But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you...
SUZANNE COLLINS Did I ever tell you how I shot a wild elephant in my pyjamas? How he got into my pyjamas I'll never ...
GROUCHO MARX And yet I love him. I love him so much and so dearly, that when I sometimes think my life may be but...
CHARLES DICKENS He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff b...
BIBLE He who knows ignorance well shall least know understanding well; he who knows understanding well sha...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I am alive because I know how to love love.
SANTOSH KALWAR Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the cit...
BIBLE I would have to ask him how he knows anything about these topics when he has never attended a meetin...
KATIE MURPHY
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May she wake in torment!’ [...] ‘Why, she’s a liar to
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EMILY BRONTë You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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EMILY BRONTë It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.
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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 And the more hurt she gets, the more venomous she grows.
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...
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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 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