Top 32 Bronte Book Quotes
#1. There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
Anne Bronte
#2. I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.
Marlon Brando
#3. When you come to me, wear these. On a good day, prettily.
Kim Do-Jin
#5. The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We'll talk its pensive hours away.
Emily Bronte
#6. I found Burns, absorbed, silent, abstracted from all around her by the companionship of a book, which she read by the dim glare of the embers.
Charlotte Bronte
#8. I love someone who can make me laugh. And someone who's secure - I think that's sexy.
Roselyn Sanchez
#9. It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
Sam Levenson
#10. Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
Ellen Glasgow
#11. Reread that Bronte book all you want, but Jane Eyre's never going to get gender-reassignment surgery or train to become a kick-ass ninja assassin.
Chuck Palahniuk
#12. Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver's Travels from the library. This book I had again and again perused with delight.
Charlotte Bronte
#14. History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does.
Ed Royce
#15. Do you read your Bible?" "Sometimes." "With pleasure? Are you fond of it?" "I like Revelations, and the book of Daniel, and Genesis and Samuel, and a little bit of Exodus, and some parts of Kings and Chronicles, and Job and Jonah." "And the Psalms? I hope you like them?" "No, sir.
Charlotte Bronte
#17. [Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.
Anne Bronte
#18. Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most influential book. But, under an interrogation light I would probably have to say 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#19. I took a book - some Arabian tales; I sat down and endeavoured to read. I could make no sense of the subject; my own thoughts swam always between me and the page I had usually found fascinating.
Charlotte Bronte
#20. There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#22. One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.
Anne Bronte
#23. Ella. If you don't learn to carpe the diem, you will be, while most certainly not Nobody, something less than a Somebody.
Melissa Jensen
#24. Our century people shoot themselves because they're ashamed before others - society, friends ... In the last century people shot themselves because they were ashamed before themselves. You
Arkady Strugatsky
#25. St. John had a book in his hand - it was his unsocial custom to read at meals - he closed it and looked up.
Charlotte Bronte
#26. No place for illusions here. The beat doesn't stop solitude, it doesn't cure pain, you can't telephone it - it's simply a reminder that you belong to a shared story.
John Berger
#28. One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
D.H. Lawrence
#29. The book-shelves were her darling treasure, She rarely seemed the time to measure While she could read alone.
Charlotte Bronte
#30. Is your book interesting? I had already formed the intention of asking her to lend it to me some day.
Charlotte Bronte
#31. I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow creature's heart: but we have some thoughts that all the angels in heaven are welcome to behold
but not our brother-men
not even the best and kindest amongst them.
Anne Bronte
#32. With the book on my knee , i was happy ,i feared nothing except interruption.
Charlotte Bronte
