Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte

"Indeed, I never liked bitters; nor do I believe them wholesome. And
to whatever is sweet, be it poison or food, you cannot, at least, deny
its own delicious quality--sweetness. Better, perhaps, to die quickly
a pleasant death, than drag on long a charmless life."

"Yet," said he, "you should take your bitter dose duly and daily, if I
had the power to administer it; and, as to the well-beloved poison, I
would, perhaps, break the very cup which held it."