Quotes about Bronte

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Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as mu — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine. — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
I cannot love a man who cannot protect me. — Anne Brontë
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. — Emily Brontë
...[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
The large, gaping flaws in the construction of the stories--mad wives in the attic, strange apparitions in Belgium--are — Elizabeth Hardwick, Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature
How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is up — Kathryn Hurn, HELL HEAVEN & IN-BETWEEN: One Woman's Journey to Finding Love
An odour of camphor and burnt vinegar warned me when I came near the fever room: and i passed its door quickly, fearful — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Where my soul went during that swoon I cannot tell. Whatever she saw, or wherever she travelled in her trance on that st — Charlotte Brontë
No; you shall tear yourself away, none shall help you: you shall yourself pluck out your right eye; yourself cut off you — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his — Charlotte Brontë
More than anything, I began to hate women writers. Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Browning, Mary Shelley, George — Catherine Lowell, The Madwoman Upstairs
I call that creativity," Orville said. "The purpose of literature is to teach you how to THINK, not how to be practical. — Catherine Lowell, The Madwoman Upstairs
Tonight, however, Dickens struck him in a different light. Beneath the author’s sentimental pity for the weak and helple — Margaret Irwin, Bloodstock and Other Stories
My sister Emily first declined. The details of her illness are deep-branded in my memory, but to dwell on them, either i — Charlotte Brontë
It is my belief that with two such men in the household and no way to meet others, Emily (Bronte)had to make Heathcliff — Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
An extraordinary dream by lord charles wellesley. (Charlotte Bronte)'In this slumber i thought i was walking on the bank — Charlotte Brontë
Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Those who live in retirement, whose lives have fallen amid the seclusion of schools or of other walled-in and guarded dw — Charlotte Brontë