Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them. — Charlotte Bronte Excellence Copy Share Image
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. — Charlotte Bronte Happiness Copy Share Image
“Happiness is the cure—a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both.” — Charlotte Brontë Happiness Copy Share Image
I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me? — Charlotte Bronte Delusion Copy Share Image
What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Call anguish--anguish, and despair--despair; write both down in strong characters with a resolute pen: you will the better pay your debt to… — Charlotte Brontë Anguish Copy Share Image
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“This pure little drop from a pure little source was too sweet: it penetrated deep, and subdued the heart” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I am paving hell with energy... I am laying down good intentions which I believe durable as flint.” — Charlotte Brontë Energy Copy Share Image
Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say… — Charlotte Bronte Bears Copy Share Image
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal. — Charlotte Bronte Ashamed Copy Share Image
The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so… — Charlotte Bronte Aloof Copy Share Image
“There are certain natures of which the mutual influence is such, that the more they say, the more they have to say.… — Charlotte Brontë Amalgamation Copy Share Image
“I still felt as a wanderer on the face of the earth,but i experienced firmer trust in myself and my own powers… — Charlotte Brontë Fear Copy Share Image
“Biblical promises, heard first in health, but then unheeded, come whispering to the couch of sickness; it is felt that a pitying… — Charlotte Brontë Compassion Copy Share Image
Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something: trivial, transitory though the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“In his dominions children grow unloving between parents who have never loved; infants are nursed on deception from their very birth; they… — Charlotte Brontë Children Copy Share Image
“Meantime, let me ask myself one question--Which is better?--To have surrendered to temptation; listened to passion; made no painful effort--no struggle;--but to… — Charlotte Brontë Love Copy Share Image
“Not always do those who dare such divine conflict prevail. Night after night the sweat of agony may burst dark on the… — Charlotte Brontë Agony Copy Share Image
“the sovereign hand that created your frame, and put life into it, has provided you with other resources than your feeble self,… — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you… — Charlotte Brontë Captivity Copy Share Image
So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior to excite feeling. Pardon the seeming paradox; I mean what I… — Charlotte Brontë Character Copy Share Image
“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in… — Charlotte Brontë Coming home Copy Share Image
you may fume and fidget as you please: but this is the best plan to pursue with you, I am certain. I… — Charlotte Bronte Advantage Copy Share Image
“Helen Burns’s shoulder, my arms round her neck. I was asleep, and Helen was—dead.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“How it was that what charmed so much, could at the same time so keenly pain?” — Charlotte Brontë Charm Copy Share Image
“You know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love which I am capable.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image