...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly lived, were at last about to taste life.
Charlotte Brontë
Related I'm spreading my wings at last. CHARLIE SIMPSON I just moved into a new house, so I love spending time at home. Everything for me is all about self-... LEA MICHELE I always felt like if I lived in true authentic self-expression and lived in service and in support ... DEBBIE FORD -Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is... CHARLOTTE BRONTë On the wings of love I soared high in the sky, free as a bird feeling blessed that I could love once... LATIKA TEOTIA Charlotte Evans was used to feeling grungy. As a freelancer, she traveled on a shoestring, getting s... BARBARA DELINSKY My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul. ROD STEWART I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if... SARAH DESSEN People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem... GLORIA GAYNOR But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punch... ANNE URSU As a kid, I would always shop for my back-to-school clothes at department stores. I lived in a small... BRITT ROBERTSON My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I wr... KATE CHRISTENSEN I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were peop... PAM GRIER You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it ... LAUREN HOLLY In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then th... JULIAN BARNES I will one day accept death with gratitude if I meet it having lived a life that became truly my own... DAN PEARCE For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night... TAYLOR SWIFT He had never known anyone who had lived one place their whole life and I had never known anyone who ... HEIDI ADAMSKI So young, and yet I have had all of life.Why, men have lived to see a hundred years,Who have not kno... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience? CHARLOTTE BRONTë It would take a great deal to crush me CHARLOTTE BRONTë The studios don't make stars. Great movies, great scripts make stars. I never had a chance to grow t... SHIRLEY MACLAINE It felt as if I had lived all my life inside a flat painting and only now had I stepped into the rea... ROSAMUND HODGE As a child, I thought that war and peace were opposites. Yet I lived in peace when Vietnam was in fl... KIM THúY Half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm funny-looking and ugly... FKA TWIGS My biggest challenge in life has been teaching myself that I am capable of enough, just as I am. Emp... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in... ROMAN PAYNE I live my life as if I were to die today, and when they ask me at the pearly gates how I lived my li... ENRIQUE VEGA I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that... VICTOR CRUZ In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but... KAREN ABBOTT ...for all its apparent speed, the ship was almost perfectly silent, and he experienced an enervatin... IAIN BANKS I've lived my life fighting to overcome but still yet the troubles I face, may never end in this end... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what pe... INGRID BERGMAN And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who ha... ARTHUR GOLDEN Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bri... HUGO WEAVING There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happine... BJORN ULVAEUS Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life. EDWARD EDWARDS Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life. WASHINGTON IRVING I had never been attracted to younger guys. I had, from my late teens, always liked men who were old... ANNETTE BENING I don't have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I'm as good as anybody, but no better. KATHERINE JOHNSON After I had done 'The Vagina Monologues' I was feeling pretty good about my vagina. I thought I was ... EVE ENSLER Friendship is the most important thing in my life. It's rare to have friends like I've got. If I had... ANDREA MICHAELS I want to die living. And I want to be remembered as one who lived with purpose, joy and feeling. I ... STEVE GOODIER I'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I'... EMILIA FOX I had never played organized football before in my life. I was tossing a football at George Lane Par... CHAD MOORE I do feel relieved. I do feel like I did what I needed to do for myself, and for whoever's out there... LISA MARIE PRESLEY [Charlotte Brontë] once told her sisters that they were wrong - even morally wrong - in making thei... ELIZABETH GASKELL What did I know of life, I who had lived so carefully? Who had neither won nor lost, but just let li... JULIAN BARNES I have a relatively sunny spirit, and I always had the expectation that my path through life would b... ANGELA MERKEL As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my c... DAVID MIXNER I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life. SHEENA EASTON If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today? STEVE JOBS My father was a general manager with Hyatt, so we lived in the hotel so he would be close by if ther... DIANNA AGRON I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about wha... INGRID BERGMAN I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I... AMY ADAMS When I'm in a restaurant, I don't eat red meat. It doesn't taste like anything. But if a... STEVE ALBINI I had a dream about you last night. We moved into a cabin in the countryside. I couldn't h... MICHAEL SUMMERS I'm a socialist. I'm amazed at how the spirit of socialism is alive and well in New York. I ... BERTIE CARVEL I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I'm no... DYLAN WALSH For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I never had a strategy about my life. I didn't have enough information to have a strategy. I'... ALAN DERSHOWITZ Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. JONATHAN EDWARDS Resolved: never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. JONATHAN EDWARDS I learned that winning was not always about being first, but more about feeling as though I had done... DR. A'YANNA WEBSTER For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherev... RACHEL CUSK I always thought the Vancouver Olympics would be my last destination, but I'm extending it to So... KIM YUNA If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether ... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life... DANIEL MORGAN My mother always told me to never limit my dreams to our economic situation. Therefore, I have alway... STACEY HILL I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. LADY GAGA I'm an only child, and in college, I was given a single, and then I lived with people for, like,... ARI GRAYNOR My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. T... DOROTHY ALLISON He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and... A.E. HOUSMAN I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I&... ANGELINA JOLIE It is true, Monsieur," Raoule went on, shrugging her shoulders, "that I have had lovers in my life a... RACHILDE I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about ... YOLANDA ADAMS For what purpose have you prayed?" "For thanks. If I must die, at least I have lived. If my com... MICHAEL F. FLYNN It infuriates me, it absolutely infuriates me, and I think I speak for just about everybody. The fir... CHARLES KUHN I kind of love going to weddings - it's a guilty pleasure. I've never been the wedding-y typ... ALISON BRIE I've always wanted to shoot a good percentage for my team, because I'm the point guard, and ... STEVE NASH I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a s... KRISTEN STEWART We are a community of layers of generations. In 1990, my parents were still in the house where I gre... LANA HALL I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but... TALIA SHIRE I don't know if All About My Mother is my best film yet. I haven't had time to analyse it. If you lo... PEDRO ALMODOVAR Without realizing what I did I began to dance along the road to Delphi. My feet danced and my arms m... MIKA WALTERI They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think. MATTHEW PRIOR They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think. MATTHEW PRIOR Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters ... RANDA HAINES My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm ... KURT COBAIN I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do. SAM TAYLOR-WOOD I'm young: I've lived my life in the public eye, and I've had to figure out how to do th... SELENA GOMEZ My mum's always had big aspirations because I'm an academic. I always got good grades at sch... STORMZY Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life. LAWRENCE WELK When I was five, we moved to Virginia and lived inside an old fort that was surrounded by a moat. So... MARY POPE OSBORNE In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family... ANN HOOD Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a... LILLIE LANGTRY You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be hono... JOHNNY VEGAS I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he ha... C.S. LEWIS This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are aba... CHARLOTTE BRONTë
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided m... CHARLOTTE 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 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 Conventionality is not morality. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Observe her when she has some knitting, or some other woman's work in hand, and sits the image of pe... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. CHARLOTTE BRONTë I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Do you like him much?' I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so v... CHARLOTTE BRONTë They spoke almost as loud as Feeling: and that clamoured wildly. "Oh, comply!" it said. "Think of hi... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have to live, perhaps, till seventy years. As far as I know, I have good health. Half a century of... CHARLOTTE BRONTë There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. CHARLOTTE BRONTë And your will shall decide your destiny," he said: "I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of al... CHARLOTTE BRONTë [O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had bee... CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a simil... CHARLOTTE BRONTë (...)because Miss Temple has generally something to say which is newer than my own reflections; her ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me wh... CHARLOTTE BRONTë He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' b... CHARLOTTE BRONTë God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I be... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. A... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Beauty is in the eye of the gazer. CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tigh... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning gra... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Now, I've another errand for you,' said my untiring master; "you must away to my room again. What a ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.' 'Station! Station!-- y... CHARLOTTE BRONTë When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoug... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have larg... CHARLOTTE BRONTë What the deuce is to do now? CHARLOTTE BRONTë My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something: trivial, ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here. CHARLOTTE BRONTë But I tell you--and mark my words--you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred there... CHARLOTTE BRONTë That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idio... CHARLOTTE BRONTë But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience? CHARLOTTE BRONTë His presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire. CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am a free human being with an independent will." Jane Eyre CHARLOTTE BRONTë You transfix me quite. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people we... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Most true is it that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer.' My master’s colourless, olive face, squa... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me. CHARLOTTE BRONTë I will, in few words. You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended noti... CHARLOTTE BRONTë No; you shall tear yourself away, none shall help you: you shall yourself pluck out your right eye; ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Those who live in retirement, whose lives have fallen amid the seclusion of schools or of other wall... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Have you heard from his lordship lately?” I asked. “Oh no! About six months ago I had... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Yes Mrs Reed, to you i owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but i ought to forgive you, for y... CHARLOTTE BRONTë This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are aba... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Who told you I was called Carl David?" "A little bird, Monsieur." "Does it fly from me to you? Then ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shephe... CHARLOTTE BRONTë But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me tha... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w... CHARLOTTE BRONTë As I exclaimed 'Jane! Jane! Jane!' a voice- I cannot tell whence the voice came, but I know whose vo... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you can... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë It would take a great deal to crush me CHARLOTTE BRONTë The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upw... CHARLOTTE BRONTë When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like t... CHARLOTTE BRONTë You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. CHARLOTTE BRONTë You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourse... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. CHARLOTTE BRONTë I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë My spirits were excited, and with pleasure and ease I talked to him during supper, and for a long ti... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I h... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise fo... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Quando uma mulher sente desprezo pelo seu marido, o casamento passa a ser uma escravidão, e contra ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Detesto l’ardire, l’ardire che appartiene all’arrogante e all’insensibile, ma amo l’audaci... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I romanzieri non dovrebbero mai consentire a se stessi di stancarsi dell’indagine della vita reale... CHARLOTTE BRONTë He that is low need fear no fall. CHARLOTTE BRONTë ...there were two gentleman seated by it talking in French;impossible to follow their rapid utteranc... CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . for if we rarely taste the fulness of joy in this life, we yet more rarely savor the acrid bit... CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . still we are none of us perfect . . . CHARLOTTE BRONTë I gave, at first, attention close; Then interest warm ensued; From interest, as improvem... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Qué terrible esfuerzo de dejar aquello que queremos CHARLOTTE BRONTë Un hombre no puede olvidar la devoción que sentía por una mujer así, no debe ser, no puede ser CHARLOTTE BRONTë It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things. CHARLOTTE BRONTë -Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is... CHARLOTTE BRONTë A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth CHARLOTTE BRONTë I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something sma... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Belgium! name unromantic and unpoetic, yet name that whenever uttered has in my ear a sound, in my h... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Pero cuando el dolor termina el recuerdo que queda a veces se transforma en placer CHARLOTTE BRONTë I verily believe all that is desirable on earth--wealth, reputation, love--will for ever to you be t... CHARLOTTE BRONTë No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every ma... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion coo... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Human beings -- human children especially -- seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a pow... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps. CHARLOTTE BRONTë That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructur... CHARLOTTE BRONTë In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—Nov... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or h... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitt... CHARLOTTE BRONTë He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw. CHARLOTTE BRONTë There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless s... CHARLOTTE BRONTë A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forwa... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Worn out with this torture of thought, I rose to my knees. Night was come, and her planets were rise... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this du... CHARLOTTE BRONTë And who talks of error now? I scarcely think the notion that flittered across my brain was an error.... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate -... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a... CHARLOTTE BRONTë All men must die. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Signs may be but the sympathies of nature with man. CHARLOTTE BRONTë You are human and fallible. CHARLOTTE BRONTë