On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“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
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish --… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Emily suffers no more from pain or weakness now. She will never suffer more in this world. She is gone after a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me not… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“My world had for some years been Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such… — Charlotte Bronte 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
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
