Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.
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It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
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I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.
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Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
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I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.'
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Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
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It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.
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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.
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I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.