Charlotte Bronte Quotes About Pleasure

• El corazón humano tiene tesoros ocultos, En secreto guardados, en silencio sellados; Los pensamientos, las esperanzas, los sueños, los placeres, Cuyos encantos se rompieron si se revelan.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Corazón Roto, Sueño, Silencio

  Charlotte Bronte Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). "Poemas de Currer, Ellis y Acton Bell", p.73, The Floating Press.

• I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Men, Agony, Gold

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). "Las hermanas Bronte: Tres novelas: Jane Eyre; Cumbres borrascosas; y Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)", p.145, Penguin

• Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow. It puzzles me now to remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, half fancying it alive and capable of sensation. I could not sleep unless it was folded in my night-gown; and when it lay there safe and warm, I was comparatively happy, believing it to be happy likewise.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Believe, Sleep, Night

  Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.41, Harper Collins

• There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can never be rightly known, we take pleasure, I think, in being consummately ignored. What honest man on being casually taken for a housebreaker does not feel rather tickled than vexed at the mistake?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Mistake, Taken, Men

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.98, Xist Publishing

• Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Rights, Forever, Poison

  1857 The Professor, ch.20.

• The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sight, Cities, Sound

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.49, Xist Publishing

También te puede gustar:

Emily Bronte

Anne Bronte

Jane Austen

Charles Dickens

George Eliot

Thomas Hardy

Margaret Mitchell