“Since happiness is irrevocably denied me, I have a right to get pleasure out of life: and I will get it, cost… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I am only bound to invoke Memory where I know her responses will possess some degree of interest.” — Charlotte Bronte Memory Copy Share Image
“I must, then, repeat continually that we are for ever sundered:—and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms… — Charlotte Bronte Dreams 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 Brontë Happiness Copy Share Image
“To speak truth, reader, there is no excellent beauty, no accomplished grace, no refinement, without strength as excellent, as complete, as trustworthy.” — Charlotte Brontë Beauty Copy Share Image
I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes. — Charlotte Bronte Agitated Copy Share Image
I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake… — Charlotte Bronte 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
“The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all; and to “burst” with boldness and good-will into “the silent sea” of their souls is… — Charlotte Brontë Boldness Copy Share Image
“No man—no woman—is always strong, always able to bear up against the unjust opinion, the vilifying word. Calumny, even from the mouth… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“He prizes me as a soldier would a good weapon, and that is all. [...] Can I receive from him the bridal… — Charlotte Brontë Love 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
“(But) I learned in time that this benignity, this cordiality, this music, belonged in no shape to me: it was a part… — Charlotte Brontë Cordiality Copy Share Image
“And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? --- that… — Charlotte Bronte Abyss Copy Share Image
“Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?" I could risk no sort of answer by this time; my heart… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“There was I, then, mounted aloft; I, who had said I could not bear the shame of standing on my natural feet… — Charlotte Brontë Nature 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
“The period of which I write was an overshadowed one in British history, and especially in the history of the northern provinces.… — Charlotte Brontë British history Copy Share Image
“But I do think hardly of you...and I'll tell you why--not so much because you refused to give me shelter, or regarded… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body… — Charlotte Bronte Body Copy Share Image
What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme -… — Charlotte Bronte Catastrophe Copy Share Image
“You have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the… — 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 Love Copy Share Image
“The writer who possesses the creative gift of fantasy owns something of which he is not always master; something that, at times,… — Charlotte Bronte Creativity Copy Share Image
“Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.” — Charlotte Brontë Charlotte-bronte Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state… — Charlotte Bronte Cheerfulness Copy Share Image
“I had enjoyed so much bliss lately that i imagined my fortune had passed its meridian and must now decline.” — Charlotte Brontë Happiness Copy Share Image
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure. — Charlotte Bronte Affection Copy Share Image
“Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.” — Charlotte Brontë Judaism Copy Share Image
“Approaching quietly, she knelt on the carpet at her side, and looked over her little shoulder at her book. It was a… — Charlotte Brontë Books Copy Share Image
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to… — Charlotte Bronte Being loved Copy Share Image
“We have none of us long to live. Let us help each other through seasons of want and woe as well as… — Charlotte Brontë Philosophy Copy Share Image
I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my… — Charlotte Bronte Angel Copy Share Image
![“He prizes me as a soldier would a good weapon, and that is all. [...] Can I receive from him the bridal ring, endure all the forms of love [...] and know that the spirit was quite absent? Can I bear the consciousness that every endearment he bestows is a sacrifice made on principle? No: such a…” quote by Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e05/charlotte-bronte-144_love_he-prizes-me-as-a-soldier-would-a-good-w_1858789.jpg)
