Quote

I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?

Charlotte Bronte

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Charlotte Bronte
Age: 38 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 21
Died: 1855
Died: March 31
Novelist
Poet
Thornton
West Yorkshire
Syarŭllotʻŭ Pŭrontʻe
Ш. Бронте
Syarŭllotʻŭ Bŭrontʻe
Xialuodi Bolangte
Шарлотта Бронте
Sharlotta Bronte
Charles Wellesley
Charlotte Bronte
Cārla$15ṭti Pirāṇṭē
Douro
Karlotta Bronte
Mrs. Arthur Bell Nicholls
Tree
Florian Wellesley
Lord Charles Albert
Currer Bell
Charlotte Nicholls
Mrs. A. B. Nicholls
Hsia-lo-ti Po-lang-tʻe
Feel
Abandon
Feels
London
Great
Pass
Hamlets
Would
Eating
Rust
Life
Spirit
Faculties
Like
Around
Obscurity
Ever
Coward
Whole
Faculty

More quotes by Charlotte Bronte

Image
It is a long way off, sir From what Jane? From England and from Thornfield: and ___ Well? From you, sir
Charlotte Bronte
Image
Que me voulez-vous?' said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he kept his teeth clenched, and seemed registering to himself an inward vow that nothing earthly should wring from him a smile. My answer commenced uncompromisingly: - 'Monsieur,' I said, je veux l'impossible, des choses inouïes.
Charlotte Bronte
Image
To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only.
Charlotte Bronte
Image
flattery would be worse than vain there is no consolation in flattery.
Charlotte Bronte
Image
Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.
Charlotte Bronte
Image
I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
Charlotte Bronte
Image
Daydreams are the delusions of the devil.
Charlotte Bronte
Image
If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment.
Charlotte Bronte
Image
I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.' - Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Image
I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
Charlotte Bronte
Image
What the deuce is to do now?
Charlotte Bronte
Image
There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that? Are you a young lady? I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.
Charlotte Bronte
Image
He is not to them what he is to me, I thought: he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine- I am sure he is- I feel akin to him- I understand the language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him.
Charlotte Bronte
Image
All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.
Charlotte Bronte
Image
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
Charlotte Bronte
Image
Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes
Charlotte Bronte
Image
He made me love him without looking at me.
Charlotte Bronte
Image
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
Charlotte Bronte
Image
I have not broken your heart - you have broken it and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
Charlotte Bronte
Image
He turned away he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' broke in anguish from his lips.
Charlotte Bronte