I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish --… — Charlotte Bronte Absurd Copy Share Image
“I know my Leader; that He is just as well as mighty; and while He has chosen a feeble instrument to perform… — Charlotte Brontë Inadequacy Copy Share Image
I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness;… — Charlotte Bronte Calamity Copy Share Image
“Sir, your wife is living; that is a fact acknowledged this morning by yourself. If I lived with you as you desire,… — Charlotte Brontë Marriage Copy Share Image
There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there… — Charlotte Brontë Good people Copy Share Image
My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world… — Charlotte Bronte Affection Copy Share Image
“-Da, spuse el, dupa ce ma privi cateva clipe, nu se poate nega, - e intr-adevar un chip care exprima hotararea-, e… — Charlotte Brontë Amor Copy Share Image
“I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature, despair. I think that on a… — Charlotte Brontë Despair Copy Share Image
“And your will shall decide your destiny," he said: "I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of all my… — Charlotte Brontë Fate Copy Share Image
“Have you heard from his lordship lately?” I asked. “Oh no! About six months ago I had indeed one little note, but… — Charlotte Brontë Charlotte-bronte Copy Share Image
“I know that a stranger's hand will write to me next, to say that the good and faithful servant has been called… — Charlotte Brontë Death Copy Share Image
“My task was not an easy one; often I would rather have pleased than teased him. My future husband was becoming to… — Charlotte Brontë Future husband Copy Share Image
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the… — Charlotte Brontë Genius Copy Share Image
“To be together is for us to be at once free as in solitude, as gay as in company. We talk, I… — Charlotte Brontë Business Copy Share Image
“Till now I had only heard, seen, moved - followed up and down where I was led or dragged - watched event… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“We know that God is everywhere…it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest… — Charlotte Brontë Omnipotence Copy Share Image
“No man — no woman — is always strong, always able to bear up against the unjust opinion, the vilifying word. Calumny,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and certainly never keep, things in order; I am careless; I forget… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“And again, as she intercepted his cup in passing, and would stir the sugar and put in the cream herself, 'I always… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“And if I had loved him less I should have thought his accent and look of exultation savage; but, sitting by him,… — Charlotte Brontë Happiness Copy Share Image
At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open… — Charlotte Bronte Heart Copy Share Image
“It was the strain of a forsaken lady, who after bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls her pride to her aid,… — Charlotte Brontë Fitness Copy Share Image
“There is something in that, I know there is, because it does not sound too sweet; it is not like such words… — Charlotte Brontë Language Copy Share Image
“One moment longer," whispered solitude and the summer moon, "stay with us: all is truly quiet now; for another quarter of an… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
My love has placed her little hand With noble faith in mine, And vowed that wedlock's sacred band Our nature shall entwine.… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“For once a hope was realized. I held in my hand a morsel of real solid joy: not a dream, not an… — Charlotte Brontë Creativity Copy Share Image
“I am sure there is a future state; I believe God is good; I can resign my immortal part to Him without… — Charlotte Brontë God father Copy Share Image
“When first I saw Isidore, I believed he would help me to enjoy it I believed he would be content with my… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“He is not a ghost; yet every nerve I have is unstrung: for a moment I am beyond my own mastery. What… — Charlotte Brontë Presence Copy Share Image
“I perceive all this, and believe that you were born under my star. Yes, you were born under my star! Tremble! for… — Charlotte Brontë Astronomy Copy Share Image
Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am… — Charlotte Bronte Bird Copy Share Image
“What good it would have done me at that time to have been tossed in the storms of an uncertain struggling like,… — Charlotte Brontë Bitter experience Copy Share Image
It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“And was Mr Rochester now ugly in my eyes?No,reader:gratitude and many associations, all pleasurable and genial,made his face the object I best… — Charlotte Brontë Books 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 Cold Winter Copy Share Image
“Mark my words—you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life’s stream will be… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
