Charlotte Bronte Answers Quotations

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

Que me voulez-vous?' said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he kept his teeth clenched, and seemed registering to himself an inward vow that nothing earthly should wring from him a smile. My answer commenced uncompromisingly: - 'Monsieur,' I said, je veux l'impossible, des choses inouïes;

It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.

I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester

And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.

You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.