Quotes by Charlotte Brontë, Villette

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Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
I do not think the sunny youth of either will prove the forerunner of stormy age. I think it is deemed good that you two — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
Happiness is the cure—a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both. — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
~Do you like him much?~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He is full of fa — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
I wait, with some impatience in my pulse, but no doubt in my breast. — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who neve — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature, despair. I think that on a certain d — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
For once a hope was realized. I held in my hand a morsel of real solid joy: not a dream, not an image of the brain, not — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forward— that a way, howe — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
Dr. John, throughout his whole life, was a man of luck - a man of success. And why? Because he had the eye to see his op — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so li — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
Besides, I seemed to hold two lives—the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished wit — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
Where the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in making written language t — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
. . . if there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this house could yield it . — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings. — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
This little man was of the order of beings who must not be opposed, unless you possessed an all-dominant force sufficien — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
But if I feel, may I never express?” “Never!” declared Reason.I groaned under her bitter sternness. Never - never - oh, — Charlotte Brontë, Villette