Villette Quotes

Je fais mon lit et mon ménage; I seek my dinner in a restaurant; my supper takes care, of itself; I ...

Those who live in retirement, whose lives have fallen amid the seclusion of schools or of other wall...

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed ...

It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or be...

His will be done, as done it surely will be, whether we humble ourselves to resignation or not. The ...

He showed the fineness of his nature by being kinder to me after that misunderstanding than before. ...

Where my soul went during that swoon I cannot tell. Whatever she saw, or wherever she travelled in h...

The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and s...

Your dress is thin, you have been dancing, you are heated." "Always preaching," retorted she; "alway...

I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refi...

Come, Paul!" she reiterated, her eye grazing me with its hard ray like a steel stylet. She pushed ag...

His veins were dark with a vivid belladonna tincture, the essence of jealousy.

Entering by the carré, a piece of mirror- glass, set in an oaken cabinet, repeated my image. It said...

I replied that I did not quite know what my ailment had been, but that I had certainly suffered a go...

Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, ...

Graham’s thoughts of me were not entirely those of a frozen indifference, after all. I believe in th...

Once I saw Graham - wholly unconscious of her proximity - push her with his restless foot. She reced...

Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to ...

This little man was of the order of beings who must not be opposed, unless you possessed an all-domi...

I do not think the sunny youth of either will prove the forerunner of stormy age. I think it is deem...

I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . ...

The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle.

But if I feel, may I never express?” “Never!” declared Reason.I groaned under her bitter sternness. ...