Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through good and ill; Thankful for all that God has given, Fixing his firmest hopes on heaven; Knowing that earthly joys decay, But hoping through the darkest day.
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I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.
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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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Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
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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.
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Make my happiness--I will make yours.
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It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
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He made me love him without looking at me.
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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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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.