“There are people who seem to have no notion of sketching a character, or observing and describing salient points, either in persons… — Charlotte Brontë Sketching Copy Share Image
“Love can excuse anything except meanness; but meanness kills love, cripples even natural affection; without esteem true love cannot exist.” — Charlotte Brontë Love Copy Share Image
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly… — Charlotte Bronte Age Copy Share Image
“Stick to the needle, learn shirt-making and gown-making and piecrust-making, and you will be a clever woman some day.” — Charlotte Bronte Clever woman Copy Share Image
“My bride is here," he said, again drawing me to him, "because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you… — Charlotte Brontë Bride Copy Share Image
“Come to me - come to me entirely now,' said he: and added, in his deepest tone, speaking in my ear as… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. — Charlotte Bronte Alive Copy Share Image
“the mere pouring out of some portion of long accumulating, long pent-up pain into a vessel whence it could not again be… — Charlotte Brontë 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
“I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me; and… — Charlotte Brontë Suffering Copy Share Image
There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Do you like him much?" "I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so… — Charlotte Bronte Boys Copy Share Image
“Speak," he urged. "What about, sir?" "Whatever you like. I leave both the choice of subject and the manner of treating it… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I am not fond of the prattle of children,' he continued; 'for, old bachelor as I am, I have no pleasant associations… — Charlotte Brontë Children Copy Share Image
A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the… — Charlotte Bronte Adventure Copy Share Image
“There is one in this tribe too often miserable - a child bereaved of both parents. None cares for this child: she… — Charlotte Brontë Children Copy Share Image
“Every good, true, vigorous feeling I have gathers impulsively round him. I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope;… — Charlotte Brontë Feelings Copy Share Image
“I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures, as… — Charlotte Brontë Change Copy Share Image
“But I affirm that you are: so much depressed that a few more words would bring tears to your eyes-indeed, they are… — Charlotte Brontë Depressed Copy Share Image
“I believe — I daily find it proved — that we can get nothing in this world worth keeping, not so much… — Charlotte Brontë Civil war Copy Share Image
“It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: but… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you… — Charlotte Bronte Christian Copy Share Image
I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the… — Charlotte Bronte Crime 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 Conscience Copy Share Image
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. — Charlotte Bronte Character Copy Share Image
“After the play, after the play', said M. Paul. 'I will then divide my pair of pistols between you, and we will… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I am sure, sir, I should never mistake informality for insolence: one I rather like, the other nothing free-born would submit to,… — Charlotte Brontë Informality Copy Share Image
You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face. — Charlotte Bronte Another world Copy Share Image
“Coldest the remembrance of the wider ocean--wealth, caste, custom intervened between me and what I naturally and inevitably loved.” — Charlotte Brontë Culture Copy Share Image
“There are certain things in which we so rarely meet with our double that it seems a miracle when that chance befalls.” — Charlotte Brontë Luck Copy Share Image
You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself… — Charlotte Bronte Appetite Copy Share Image
“...and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour… — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Do you like him much?' I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so… — Charlotte Bronte Boys Copy Share Image
“I have not much pride under such circumstances; I would always rather be happy than dignified.” — Charlotte Brontë Dignified Copy Share Image
“I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blessed.” — Charlotte Brontë Nature Copy Share Image
Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
