“Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blessed.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“People talk of natural sympathies ; I have heard of good genii ; there are grains of truth in the wildest fable.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Little things recall us to earth. The clock struck in the hall; that sufficed. I turned from the moon and the stars,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance - a topic we should never discuss: the very name… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“[...] I daily wished more to please him; but to do so, I felt daily more and more that I must disown… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The second Mrs. Helstone, inversing the natural order of insect existence, would have fluttered through the honeymoon a bright, admired butterfly, and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“But as his wife - at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked - forced to keep the fire of… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upwards, take an interest, believe to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature, despair. I think that on a… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Presentiments are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Having thus acknowledged what I owe those who have aided and approved me, I turn to another class; a small one, so… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I, to whom nature had denied the impromptu faculty; who, in public, was by nature a cypher; whose time of mental activity,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
“A deal of people, Miss, are for trusting all to Providence; but I say Providence will not dispense with the means, though He often… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great single cloud… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
“How dare I, Mrs Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were -… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
“Not one spark of spirit, not one symptom of resistance, would they have shown till the hand of the Corsican bandit had grasped that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
“Love can excuse anything except meanness; but meanness kills love, cripples even natural affection; without esteem true love cannot exist.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
“You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
![“[...] I daily wished more to please him; but to do so, I felt daily more and more that I must disown half my nature, stifle half my faculties, wrest my tastes from their original bent, force myself to the adoption of pursuits for which I had no natural vocation.” quote by Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c35/charlotte-bronte-144_dependence_i-daily-wished-more-to-please-him-but-to_3154280.jpg)
