Charlotte Brontë - Life Quotes

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Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.

Charlotte Brontë

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.

Charlotte Brontë

That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.

Charlotte Brontë

I suppose animals kept in cages, and so scantily fed as to be always upon the verge of famine, await their food as I awaited a letter... The letter — the well-beloved letter — would not come; and it was all of sweetness in life I had to look for.

Charlotte Brontë