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
heart might enough
My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it.
believe i-believe villette
I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.
feminine given faculty
Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.
deuces
What the deuce is to do now?
You transfix me quite.
somewhere-under feelings ribs
I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.
dream phantoms mere
You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream
existence enjoyed
While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!
Make my happiness--I will make yours.
sleep genuine tact
Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
lambs arms shepherds
I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane?
believe heart insults-you
I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.' 'Station! Station!-- your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you, now or hereafter.
accept plain poor small
You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.
bless god
Good-night, Dr. John; you are good, you are beautiful; but you are not mine. Good-night, and God bless you!