Charlotte Brontë Short Quotes

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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow...

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I am neither a man nor a woman but an author.

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Better to be without logic than without feeling.

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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

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I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

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There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

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I was no pope — I could not boast infallibility...

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I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

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Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.

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I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.

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Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.

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What animal magnetism drew thee and me together—I know not.

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My bride is here... because my equal is here, and my likeness.

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The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

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Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

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Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

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I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

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As much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.

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You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream

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What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?

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A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play;

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Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.

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While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!

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To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.

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But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?

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I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations.

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If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.

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

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My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it.

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I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.

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