Charlotte Bronte Me Quotations

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

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

I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto.

I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft, silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced - conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph _I_ can win.

Rochester: My bride is here, because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?

Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.

I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.

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

Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.