Quotes About Villette

#1. Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven't quite finished Villette.

Joe Queenan

#2. Whatever my powers
feminine or the contrary
God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

Charlotte Bronte

#3. If you're a content brand, you have to be in every place your audience is. Sometimes your audience is on the couch and wants to watch a 30-minute show, and sometimes they're checking their Facebook feed and want to see something that's only a minute long.

Ricky Van Veen

#4. Libby giggled. "Do you even know what WTF means, Gram?" "Yeah. Wild turkey fun.

Denise Grover Swank

#5. The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when the latter came I almost felt it a disturbance, and rather still wished it had held aloof.

Charlotte Bronte

#6. The writer who possesses the creative gift of fantasy owns something of which he is not always master; something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.

Charlotte Bronte

#7. This little man was of the order of beings who must not be opposed, unless you possessed an all-dominant force sufficient to crush him at once.

Charlotte Bronte

#8. When we finally got to play that and we had a great show there, well I can tell it was pretty awesome. Y'know, we probably did bigger festivals since then; we probably headlined bigger festivals since then, but I will always remember that.

Kerry King

#9. But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself?

Charlotte Bronte

#10. Who told you I was called Carl David?" "A little bird, Monsieur." "Does it fly from me to you? Then one can tie a message under its wing when needful.

Charlotte Bronte

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

Charlotte Bronte

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

Charlotte Bronte

#13. Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.

John Piper

#14. It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or bemoaning the mortifications, of feelings.

Charlotte Bronte

#15. Once I saw Graham - wholly unconscious of her proximity - push her with his restless foot. She receded an inch or two. A minute after one little hand stole out from beneath her face, to which it had been pressed, and softly caressed the heedless foot.

Charlotte Bronte

#16. Anything we can do to encourage our young people to celebrate the arts and believe in a career in the arts is wonderful for Canada and for Canadian youth.

Liane Balaban

#17. I will tell you it is my neck you are putting in peril; for whatever is yours is, in a dearer and tenderer sense, mine.

Charlotte Bronte

#18. I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.

Charlotte Bronte

#19. Were I ever alone in the dock, I would not want to be arraigned before our flawed tribunals, knowing my freedom could be forfeit as a result of political pressures. I would prefer a fair trial, under the shadow of the noose.

Michael Gove

#20. London has become one of the great world destinations for someone who likes food.

Danny Meyer

#21. When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.

Amy Lowell

#22. As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.

Tim Scott

#23. Many Liberals are rightly dismayed that on this vital issue of climate change we are not simply without a policy, without any prospect of having a credible policy but we are now without integrity. We have given our opponents the irrefutable, undeniable evidence that we cannot be trusted.

Malcolm Turnbull

#24. It was in looking up at him her aspect had caught its lustre - the light repeated in her eyes beamed first out of his.

Charlotte Bronte

#25. This is what happened.

Stephen King

#26. Well, there's always Nevada," Benny said. "You can buy anything from a hand laser to an atom bomb there.

Joe Haldeman