“With animals I feel I am Adam's son; the heir of him to whom dominion was given over "every living thing that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“It was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.” — Charlotte Brontë Peace 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 Nature Copy Share Image
[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter? — Charlotte Bronte Dwell on the past Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like taking all you do at a moderate estimate: it keeps mind and body tranquil; whereas grandiloquent notions are… — Charlotte Brontë Mind and body Copy Share Image
“That evening more firmly than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone, and Hope a false idol… — Charlotte Brontë Spirituality Copy Share Image
“But you know very well you are thinking of another they, and that he is not thinking of you” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“While I looked, my inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose; I had a sudden feeling as if… — Charlotte Brontë Inner self Copy Share Image
“When you behold an aspect for whose constant gloom and frown you cannot account, whose unvarying cloud exasperates you by its apparent… — Charlotte Brontë Gloom Copy Share Image
“Her grave is in Brocklebridge Churchyard: for fifteen years after her death it was only covered by a grassy mound; but now… — Charlotte Brontë Death Copy Share Image
“Life, however, was yet in my possession; with all its requirements, and pains, and responsibilities. The burden must be carried, and want… — Charlotte Brontë Burden Copy Share Image
“I verily believe all that is desirable on earth--wealth, reputation, love--will for ever to you be the ripe grapes on the high… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But go after him;… — Charlotte Brontë Dignity 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
“…that then I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best… — Charlotte Brontë Love Copy Share Image
“And who cares for imagination? Who does not think it a rather dangerous, senseless attribute, akin to weakness, perhaps partaking of frenzy… — Charlotte Brontë Dreams Copy Share Image
“A nőket általában nyugodtnak, csendesnek tartják, pedig a nők éppen úgy szeretik a képességeiket, tehetségüket próbára tenni, mint fivéreik. Ők is éppen… — Charlotte Brontë Hungarian Copy Share Image
I would not be you for a kingdom.' The remark was too naïve to rouse anger; I merely said - 'Very good.'… — Charlotte Bronte Brain Copy Share Image
“The Lowood constraint still clings to you somewhat; controlling your features, muffling your voice, and restricting your limbs; and you fear in… — Charlotte Brontë Restricting Copy Share Image
“That night I never thought to sleep; but a slumber fell on me as soon as I lay down in bed. I… — Charlotte Brontë Children Copy Share Image
“Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Gratitude, and many associations, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object I best liked to see; his presence in a… — Charlotte Brontë Gratitude Copy Share Image
The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives… — Charlotte Bronte Approach Copy Share Image
When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“for after all, the British peasantry are the best taught, best mannered, most self-respecting of any in Europe:” — Charlotte Brontë Best man Copy Share Image
“I found Burns, absorbed, silent, abstracted from all around her by the companionship of a book, which she read by the dim… — Charlotte Bronte Book Copy Share Image
“Nu prin violenta infrangi cel mai bine ura - si, cu siguranta, nici cu o razbunare nu vindeci ranile.” — Charlotte Brontë Amor Copy Share Image
“To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,— Is such my future fate? The morn was dreary, must the eve Be also… — Charlotte Brontë Despair Copy Share Image
“I forgot that there were fields, woods, rivers, seas, an ever-changing sky outside the steam-dimmed lattice of this sick-chamber; I was almost… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“It was in looking up at him her aspect had caught its lustre - the light repeated in her eyes beamed first… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now… — Charlotte Bronte Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or bemoaning the mortifications, of… — Charlotte Brontë Feelings Copy Share Image
“Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the… — Charlotte Brontë Despair Copy Share Image
I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.'… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Sir, you have now given me my 'cadeau;' I am obliged to you: it is the meed teachers most covet-praise of their… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury. — Charlotte Bronte Hate Copy Share Image