“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
Little Rubs and Disappaointments
“There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.” Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Mood of Mind
“Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss’s neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?” Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
To Cure A Greater Evil
“I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me – that’s certain – but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza’s, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it.” The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Wise People
“Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none” Villette by Charlote Bronte