1847 · Skopia

Showing 22 quotes from 1847

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them.

Wuthering Heights · 1847

★ 7.1

Speech · Political speech

No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins.

Frederick Douglass

1847

★ 7.0

Novel · Coming of age story

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 3.9

Novel · Coming of age story

Reader, I married him.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 3.9

I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free.

Wuthering Heights · 1847

★ 3.9

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Wuthering Heights · 1847

★ 3.9

Novel · Coming of age story

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 3.8

Novel · Coming of age story

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 3.8

Novel · Coming of age story

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 3.8

Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!

Wuthering Heights · 1847

★ 3.8

Novel · Coming of age story

My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 3.7

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.

Alfred Tennyson

The Princess · 1847

★ 3.5

Man for the field and woman for the hearth: Man for the sword and for the needle she: Man with the head and woman with the heart: Man to command and woman to obey; All else confusion.

Alfred Tennyson

The Princess · 1847

★ 3.5

The Night is mother of the Day, The Winter of the Spring, And ever upon old Decay The greenest mosses cling.

John Greenleaf Whittier

A Dream of Summer · 1847

★ 3.5

This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1847

★ 3.5

Novel · Coming of age story

I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you.

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography · 1847

★ 2.2

Personal journal

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1847

★ 2.1

Man is the hunter; woman is his game.

Alfred Tennyson

The Princess · 1847

★ 2.0

London is a modern Babylon.

Benjamin Disraeli

1847

★ 2.0

The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs.

Alphonse Toussenel

1847

★ 1.9

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