Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Brontëwas an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. She first published her worksunder the pen name Currer Bell...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 April 1816
lapses answers tongue
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
people despise eighty
What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.
friendly ease painful
The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him
cousin reality love-is
You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance - a topic we should never discuss: the very name of love is an apple of discord between us. If the reality were required, what should we do? How should we feel? My dear cousin, abandon your scheme of marriage - forget it.
pain hate thinking
Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking about; you misjudge me again: it is not because she is mad I hate her. If you were mad, do you think I should hate you?
pope infallibility boast
I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility ...
hard-work fate done
It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate.
country patriotism world
On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.
would-be flattery vain
flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.
want given hollowness
Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something of your own to bestow it on?
luck fortune quarters
Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.
dying famous-last-words has-beens
Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.
years england clergy
Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England.
charity degradation hunger
For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity ...