Charlotte Bronte Quotes
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
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?
It is always the way of events in this life,...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.
On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.
I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.
The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.
You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
I don't wish to treat you like an inferior: that is (correcting himself), I claim only such superiority as must result from twenty years' difference in age and a century's advance in experience.
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
It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others.
I have an inward treasure born within me which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.
Life is so constructed that the event does not cannot will not match the expectation.
I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will.
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.