“Why would I, if I can get sweet, fresh pleasure? And I may get it as sweet and fresh as the wild honey the bee gathers on the moor.”
“It will sting – it will taste bitter, sir.”
– Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre, Chapter 14. Rochester asks Jane why he should reform if he can enjoy the taste of sweet, fresh pleasure. He uses a simile to compare the freshness and sweetness of such pleasure to the wild honey gathered by the bee on the moor. The very moral Jane warns him that such pleasure will metaphorically sting and taste bitter.