Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.


Charlotte Bronte

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I was a crazy little seven-year-old. I used to get up an hour early to watch the big kids train. I t...
BRONTE CAMPBELL
When we were very, very young, I was actually better than Cate was at swimming, and I was not very h...
BRONTE CAMPBELL
I collect rings from every country that I compete in, and I swap them around and wear different ones...
BRONTE CAMPBELL
I'm actually really good at vacuuming, and I don't even mind it so much. I hate dusting with...
BRONTE CAMPBELL
It might sound stupid, but I don't enter a race to win - I enter a race because I love racing.
BRONTE CAMPBELL
I learnt my lessons very early on that it's probably a good thing to be humble in victory as wel...
BRONTE CAMPBELL
He said the pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till evening on a b...
EMILY BRONTE
Every horse I get on I can adapt to. It's like a jigsaw puzzle.
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN
I was frightened. I hadn't really had any experience, and then all of a sudden I was thrown stra...
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
CHARLOTTE WHITTON
I am not a Sunday morning inside four walls
with clean blood
and organized drawers.
I...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON
Horizons, cheap whisky straight from the bottle
and your hands in mine.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON
I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city. The noise and all its people...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON
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
Jane, you are my confidante, my helpmate, my friend. My lover. You are everything the word wife mean...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE
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
You can kid the world, but not your sister.
CHARLOTTE GRAY
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
So you will meet many ’someones’ who will give a new definition to your name.
And you can ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON
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
Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON
The stars are brilliant at this time of night
and I wander these streets like a ritual I don�...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON
So I am not a broken heart.
I am not the weight I lost or miles or ran and I am not the way I ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON
I want to learn how to speak to anyone at any time and make us both feel a little bit better, lighte...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON
America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.
CHARLOTTE BUNCH
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not...
CHARLOTTE WHITTON
In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whos...
CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the ma...
CHARLOTTE BINGHAM
I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,
CHARLOTTE BARNARD
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