Villette Quotes

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  • We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.

    Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.41, Xist Publishing
  • If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.

    War   Destiny   Life Is  
    Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Large Edition”, p.84, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.

    Advantage   Worst   Knows  
    Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Edition”, p.335, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.

    Stars   Wings   Liberty  
    1853 Villette, ch.6.
  • Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.

    Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.56, Xist Publishing
  • There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

    May   Cost   Lovers  
    Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Large Edition”, p.320, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.

    Summer   Morning   Mean  
    "Villette". Book by Charlotte Bronte, Ch. XXII: The Letter, 1853.
  • In a few more days I'd anticipated telling Veronika that our injections had cured her heart condition. But in light of her unscheduled departure form Villette my telling that particular lie will not be required. The majority of people who attempt suicide repeat that attempt until they succeed. I took a risk in lying to her about her condition, i decided to test the only remedy i have come to have any faith in: awareness of life. Until she finds out from some other doctor that she is perfectly healthy. She'll consider each day a miracle. Which in my view it is.

    Suicide   Lying   Heart  
  • I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.

    Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Edition”, p.171, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

    Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Large Edition”, p.175, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

    Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Edition”, p.157, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.

    Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.350, Xist Publishing
  • But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself?

    Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.350, Xist Publishing
  • Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

    Villette ch. 36 (1853)
  • I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.

    Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.27, Xist Publishing
  • If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.

    Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette”, p.475, The Floating Press
  • Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven't quite finished Villette.

    Reading   Angel   Epic  
    "One For The Books". Book by Joe Queenan, 2012.
  • I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.

    Strong   Selfish   Evil  
    Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette”, p.80, The Floating Press
  • I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.

    Flower   Hands   Wish  
    Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.327, Xist Publishing
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