Charlotte Bronte Quotes

He fumed like a bottled storm. ~ Villette by Charlotte Bronte I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities. ~ Villette by Charlotte Bronte I seemed to hold two lives—the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished with a sufficiency of the strange necromantic joys of fancy, the privileges of the latter might remain limited to daily bread, hourly work, and a roof of shelter. ~ Villette by Charlotte Bronte To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage. ~ Villette by Charlotte Bronte Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. ~ Villette by Charlotte Bronte "It is always the way of events in this life," he continued presently: "no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting-place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired." ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer. ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils. ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me. ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion. ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte