“If a woman is fair and amiable, she is praised for both qualities, but especially the former, by the bulk of mankind: if, on the other hand, she is disagreeable in person and character, her plainness is commonly inveighed against as her greatest crime, because, to common observers, it gives the greatest offence; while, if she is plain and good, provided she is a person of retired manners and secluded life, no one ever knows of her goodness, except her immediate connections.” Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
No Possibility
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Best Treatment
“I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.” Emma by Jane Austen
Power of His Soul
“If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn’t love you as much as I do in a single day.” Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Hung His Hopes
“Well, and what was there in that?–Who ever hung his hopes upon so frail a twig?” Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
His Presence
“A safe, still night; too serene for the companionship of fear. We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us: and it is in the unclouded night sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His Omnipresence.” Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Angry People
“Angry people are not always wise.” Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
If the Air Blew On It
“I got the sexton, who was digging Linton’s grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again—it is hers yet—he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it…” Wuthering Heights by Jane Eyre
Incomprehensible Creatures
“No, but still it is very unpleasant to live with such unimpressible, incomprehensible creatures. You cannot love them; and if you could, your love would be utterly thrown away: they could neither return it, nor value, nor understand it.” Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
Dread Remorse
“Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.” Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte