Quotes from bronte charlotte iii

I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

Affectation, or coldness, or stupid, coarse-minded misapprehension of one's meaning are the usual rewards of candour.

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

His wit is bright, his humour attractive, but both bear the same relation to his serious genius that the mere lambent sheet-lightning playing under the edge of the summer-cloud does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb.

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! I have as much soul as you -- and full as much heart!

Our honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

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?