Quotes from Villette — Charlotte Brontë
1816–1855 England
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There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.
Villette (1853)
Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.
Villette (1853)
Inadventurous, unstirred by impulses of practical ambition, I was capable of sitting twenty years teaching infants the horn-book, turning silk dresses and making children’s frocks.
Villette (1855)
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.
Villette (1853)
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.
Villette (1853)
"Monsieur, sit down; listen to me. I am not a heathen, I am not hard-hearted, I am not unchristian, I am not dangerous, as they tell you; I would not trouble your faith; you believe in God and Christ and the Bible, and so do I."
Villette (1853)