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
should-have suffering firsts
They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.
bird
I am no bird and no net ensnares me
sex genius limits
Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius.
men worry mind
The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.
dream stars eye
As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream.
missing poison dread
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
country flower book
I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses.
soul disappointed ifs
If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.
brother humble home
My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world - the ... affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other.
suffering body occupation
There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.
kindness may hearty
as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
character eye fire
To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break... I am ever tender and true.
cocktails
Everyone else is just cocktails.
married reader
Reader, I literally married him.