Quotes about Villette

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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
His will be done, as done it surely will be, whether we humble ourselves to resignation or not. The impulse of creation — Charlotte Brontë
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
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
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
I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets — and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?
Je fais mon lit et mon ménage; I seek my dinner in a restaurant; my supper takes care, of itself; I pass days laborious — Charlotte Brontë
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
He showed the fineness of his nature by being kinder to me after that misunderstanding than before. Nay, the very incide — Charlotte Brontë
Those who live in retirement, whose lives have fallen amid the seclusion of schools or of other walled-in and guarded dw — Charlotte Brontë
It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or bemoaning the mortific — Charlotte Brontë
But if I feel, may I never express?” “Never!” declared Reason.I groaned under her bitter sternness. Never - never - oh, — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle. — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
Come, Paul!" she reiterated, her eye grazing me with its hard ray like a steel stylet. She pushed against her kinsman. I — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
His veins were dark with a vivid belladonna tincture, the essence of jealousy. — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
Entering by the carré, a piece of mirror- glass, set in an oaken cabinet, repeated my image. It said I was changed: my c — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand w — Charlotte Brontë, Villette
Your dress is thin, you have been dancing, you are heated." "Always preaching," retorted she; "always coddling and admon — Charlotte Brontë, Villette