Charlotte Brontë
Quotes
Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis |
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Life appears to me to be too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering
wrong.
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their
sake rather than our own.
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We only suffer reality to suggest,
never to dictate.
(letter: about writing Shirley) |
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Be a governess! Better be a slave at once!
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not
religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from
the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil
has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among
rocks.
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Reader, I married him.
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The soul fortunately, has an interpreter - often an
unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.
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We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age-- Are they withered in the sod? (1835) |
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An abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of
England.
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Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel
just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their
efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint,
too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer...it is thoughtless to
condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more than custom has
pronounced necessary for their sex.
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About Charlotte Brontë, by James Lorimer, 1849:
If these remarkable works are the productions of a woman we shall only say
she must be a woman pretty nearly unsexed. |
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• Each quotation
page in this collection and the entire collection are © Jone Johnson Lewis
1997-2004. This is an informal collection -- if you need citations for the
original source, I don't have those available unless they're listed with the
quotes.
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