“Where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls, Boils round the naked, melancholy isles Of farthest Thule; and the Atlantic surge Pours in… — Charlotte Brontë River Copy Share Image
“Now here (he pointed to the leafy enclosure we had entered) all is real, sweet, and pure” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night. I wanted to hear his… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break...… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Keep to your caste and be too self-respecting to lavish the love of the whole heart, soul and strength where such a… — Charlotte Brontë Love Copy Share Image
“So this subject is done with. It is right to look our life-accounts bravely in the face now and then, and settle… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Read the New Testament, and observe what Christ says, and how he acts-make his world your rule, and his conduct your example.” — Charlotte Brontë Bible Copy Share Image
“words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. My thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it… — Charlotte Brontë Acknowledgment Copy Share Image
There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I could not see how poor people had the means of being kind, and then to learn to speak like them, to… — Charlotte Brontë Caste Copy Share Image
“I know no medium: I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with positive, hard characters, antagonistic to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human… — Charlotte Bronte Boldness Copy Share Image
“A child cannot quarrel with it's elders, as I had done-cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine-without… — Charlotte Brontë Aging Copy Share Image
Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to… — Charlotte Bronte Animosity Copy Share Image
“there was ever in Mr. Rochester (so at least I thought) such a wealth of the power of communicating happiness, that to… — Charlotte Brontë Happiness Copy Share Image
“She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that… — Charlotte Brontë Devotion Copy Share Image
“My spirits were excited, and with pleasure and ease I talked to him during supper, and for a long time after. There… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upwards, take an interest, believe to… — Charlotte Brontë Books Copy Share Image
“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You… — Charlotte Brontë Jealousy Copy Share Image
“...you think too much of the love of human beings; you are too impulsive, too vehement: the sovereign hand that created your… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied… — Charlotte Bronte Anathema Copy Share Image
“Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a seat apart from them, near the… — Charlotte Brontë Art Copy Share Image
He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!'… — Charlotte Bronte Anguish Copy Share Image
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Rochester: My bride is here, because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me? — Charlotte Bronte Bride Copy Share Image
“Little things recall us to earth. The clock struck in the hall; that sufficed. I turned from the moon and the stars,… — Charlotte Brontë Astronomy Copy Share Image
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely… — Charlotte Bronte Creative Copy Share Image
Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Left alone, I was passive; repulsed, I withdrew; forgotten — my lips would not utter, nor my eyes dart a reminder.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I felt physically weak and broken down, but my worse ailment was an unutterable wretchedness of mind; a wretchedness which kept drawing… — Charlotte Brontë Psychology Copy Share Image
All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest… — Charlotte Bronte Exile Copy Share Image
“Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear.” — Charlotte Brontë Fear Copy Share Image
“Vain favour! coming, like most other favours long deferred and often wished for, too late!” — Charlotte Brontë Too late Copy Share Image
“I regained my couch, but never thought of sleep. Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where… — Charlotte Brontë Sleep Copy Share Image
They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of… — Charlotte Bronte Bliss Copy Share Image
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice! What do I sacrifice? Famine fo food, expectation for content. To be privileged to put my arms round what I value… — Charlotte Brontë Happiness Copy Share Image
![“I could not see how poor people had the means of being kind, and then to learn to speak like them, to adopt their manners, to be uneducated, to grow up like one of the poor women [...]: no, I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.” quote by Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/24a/charlotte-bronte-144_caste_i-could-not-see-how-poor-people-had-the_2266560.jpg)
