Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. Charlotte Bronte More Quotes by Charlotte Bronte More Quotes From Charlotte Bronte True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it. Charlotte Bronte flashenthusiasmfeelings Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? Charlotte Bronte soultemptationlaw Alas! never had I loved him so well! Charlotte Bronte alaswells I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me. Charlotte Bronte i-love-youlove-youbeauty Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key. Charlotte Bronte threekeyshumanity He made me love him without looking at me. Charlotte Bronte janemade All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever. Charlotte Bronte fateforeverheart That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure. Charlotte Bronte affectionfoundationfirsts Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes Charlotte Bronte eyepridedesire What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage. Charlotte Bronte choicesrunningpromise You transfix me quite. Charlotte Bronte I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night. I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to meet his eye. Charlotte Bronte voiceeyenight Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you. Charlotte Bronte forget-youstrivefate I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses. Charlotte Bronte flowercountrybook If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed. Charlotte Bronte destinylife-iswar We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible. Charlotte Bronte religious-faithacknowledgeshould But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience? Charlotte Bronte youthinexperienceblind Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth. Charlotte Bronte one-dayearthfirsts Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps. Charlotte Bronte springmorningnight The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator. Charlotte Bronte narratorslistenerstongue
