I again felt rather like an individual of but average gastronomical powers, sitting down to feast alone at a table spread with provisions for a hundred.
("Jane Eyre")
More Quotes from Charlotte Bronte:
Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations.Charlotte Bronte
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
Charlotte Bronte
Life and marriage I have known,
Things once deemed so bright;
Now, how utterly is flown
Every ray of light!
Charlotte Bronte
I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence. -St.John Rivers
Charlotte Bronte
Reader, I married him.
Charlotte Brontë
Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.
Charlotte Bronte
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