Charlotte Bronte Quotes


Because when she failed, I saw how she might have succeeded. Arrows that continually glanced off from Mr. Rochester's breast and fell harmless at his feet, might, I knew, if shot by a surer hand, have quivered keen in his proud heart - have called love into his stern eye, and softness into his sardonic face, or better still, without weapons a silent conquest might have been won.


Citations

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Smith, Elder & Co., 1847.

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Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
  • Born: April 21, 1816
  • Died: March 31, 1855
  • Nationality: British
  • Profession: Novelist, Poet, Governess

Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.