“I will do my best: it is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.” — Charlotte Brontë Pity Copy Share Image
“Most things free-born will submit to anything for a salary.” — Charlotte Brontë Charlotte-bronte Copy Share Image
“...stale details often regain a degree of freshness when they pass through new lips.” — Charlotte Brontë Freshness Copy Share Image
flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery. — Charlotte Bronte Consolation Copy Share Image
“Then her soul sat on her lips, and language flowed, from what source I cannot tell.” — Charlotte Brontë Lips Copy Share Image
“I am a free human being with an independent will." Jane Eyre” — Charlotte Brontë Freedom Copy Share Image
A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; — Charlotte Bronte Books Copy Share Image
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Some have won a wild delight, By daring wilder sorrow; Could I gain thy love to-night, I'd hazard death to-morrow.” — Charlotte Brontë Bravery Copy Share Image
I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I shall never more know the sweet homage given to beauty, youth and grace - for never to any else shall I… — Charlotte Brontë Beauty Copy Share Image
“that I have wakened out of most glorious dreams, and found them all void and vain, is a horror I could bear… — Charlotte Brontë Dreams Copy Share Image
“Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are the attributes… — Charlotte Brontë Angel Copy Share Image
“Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman — almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was… — Charlotte Brontë Heart Copy Share Image
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. — Charlotte Bronte Adoration Copy Share Image
“The inanimate objects were not changed; but the living things had altered past recognition.” — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
“[...] I could not go on for ever so: I want to enjoy my own faculties as well as to cultivate those… — Charlotte Brontë Education Copy Share Image
“My state of mind, and all accompanying circumstances, were just now such as most to favour the adoption of a new, resolute,… — Charlotte Brontë Daring Copy Share Image
“You do not know how the people of this country bear malice. It is the boast of some of them that they… — Charlotte Brontë Malice Copy Share Image
“I know she re-entered her prison with pain, with reluctance, with a moan and a long shiver. The divorced mates, Spirit and… — Charlotte Brontë Prison Copy Share Image
I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.… — Charlotte Bronte Alive Copy Share Image
“It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it… — Charlotte Brontë Peace Copy Share Image
“And what is hell? Can you tell me that?” “A pit full of fire.” “And should you like to fall into that… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
But I tell you--and mark my words--you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of… — Charlotte Bronte Atoms Copy Share Image
“Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting,… — Charlotte Brontë Flower 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 Angel Copy Share Image
“Iubirea nascuta din frumusetea adevarata nu era pentru mine - n-aveam nimic in comun cu asa ceva. [...] insa o astfel de… — Charlotte Brontë Amor Copy Share Image
“and there is dishonest men plenty to guide them to the devil, scoundrels that reckons to be the ‘people’s friends,’ and that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I returned to my book—Bewick’s History of British Birds: the letterpress thereof I cared little for, generally speaking; and yet there were… — Charlotte Brontë History Copy Share Image
“Youth is gone -- gone -- and will never come back: can't help it.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed. — Charlotte Bronte Destiny Copy Share Image
“Oh! I will give my heart to God,” I said. “You do not want it.” — Charlotte Brontë God Copy Share Image
“What is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?” — Charlotte Brontë Headstrong Copy Share Image
The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator. — Charlotte Bronte Eagerness Copy Share Image
Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I wait, with some impatience in my pulse, but no doubt in my breast.” — Charlotte Brontë Animals Copy Share Image