Quotes from The Professor — Charlotte Brontë
1816–1855 England
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Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.
The Professor (1857)
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
The Professor (1857)
Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another’s rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.
The Professor (1857)
What animal magnetism drew thee and me together—I know not.
The Professor (1857)
Against slavery all right thinkers revolt, and though torture be the price of resistance, torture must be dared: though the only road to freedom lie through the gates of death, those gates must be passed; for freedom is indispensable.
The Professor (1857)
I tell you, Mr. Hunsden, you are a more unpractical man than I am an unpractical woman, for you don't acknowledge what really exists; you want to annihilate individual patriotism and national greatness as an atheist would annihilate God and his own soul, by denying their existence.
The Professor (1857)