“It is right to look our life-accounts bravely in the face now and then, and settle them honestly. And he is a… — Charlotte Brontë Swindler Copy Share Image
“Think meanly of me, Lina," said he. "Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Look here; to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly… — Charlotte Brontë Affection Copy Share Image
“-Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is a skillful architect. - And interest? -yes,… — Charlotte Brontë Architecture Copy Share Image
“One lies there," I thought, "who will soon be beyond the war of earthly elements. Whither will that spirit -- now struggling… — Charlotte Brontë Thought Copy Share Image
“Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to draw so near to him?” I asked myself. “Surely she… — Charlotte Bronte Affection Copy Share Image
“[...] I daily wished more to please him; but to do so, I felt daily more and more that I must disown… — Charlotte Brontë Dependence Copy Share Image
“Ay, I am proud, and so are ye; but your pride and mine is t’ raight mak — what we call i’… — Charlotte Brontë Pride Copy Share Image
“I do not think the sunny youth of either will prove the forerunner of stormy age. I think it is deemed good… — Charlotte Brontë Fate Copy Share Image
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. We are, and must be one and… — Charlotte Brontë Animosity Copy Share Image
“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make… — Charlotte Brontë Feminism Copy Share Image
“How I wished that he could feel heart's-ease! How I grieved that he brooded over pain, and pain from such a cause!… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Belgium! name unromantic and unpoetic, yet name that whenever uttered has in my ear a sound, in my heart an echo, such… — Charlotte Brontë Resurrection Copy Share Image
“The difference between her and me might be figured by that between the stately ship, cruising safe on smooth seas, with its… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Rochester talking to Jane: I see no enemy to a fortunate issue but in the brow; and that brow professes to say,--'I… — Charlotte Brontë Conscience Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that, were I a gentleman like him, I would take to my bosom only such a wife as… — Charlotte Brontë Happiness Copy Share Image
“Well; I would rather die yonder than in a street, or on a frequented road, ' I reflected. 'And far better that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every man, worthy of… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“A safe, still night; too serene for the companionship of fear. We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His… — Charlotte Brontë Fear Copy Share Image
“Mademoiselle St. Pierre always presided at M. Emanuel's lessons, and I was told that the polish of her manner, her seeming attention,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but… — Charlotte Brontë Envy Copy Share Image
“I was for a while troubled with a haunting fear that if i handled the flower freely its bloom would fade -the… — Charlotte Brontë Blossom Copy Share Image
“Human feelings are queer things -- I am much happier -- black-leading the stove's -- making the beds and sweeping the floors… — Charlotte Brontë Fine lady Copy Share Image
“The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by… — Charlotte Brontë Time Copy Share Image
It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had… — Charlotte Bronte Anger Copy Share Image
In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—November seasons of disaster, when… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.… — Charlotte Brontë Love Copy Share Image
“How dare I, Mrs Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and that I… — Charlotte Brontë Kindness Copy Share Image
“I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he… — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“My world had for some years been Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the… — Charlotte Brontë Courage Copy Share Image
“Swifts, on a fine morning in May, flying this way, that way, sailing around at a great hight, perfectly happily. Then, one… — Charlotte Brontë Ecstasy Copy Share Image
I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me not… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“It is not saying too much; I know what I feel, and how averse are my inclinations to the bare thought of… — Charlotte Brontë Love Copy Share Image
“To live amidst general regard, though it be but the regard of working people, is like 'sitting in sunshine, calm and sweet':… — Charlotte Brontë Sunshine Copy Share Image
“Yes Mrs Reed, to you i owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but i ought to forgive you, for you knew… — Charlotte Brontë Charlotte-bronte Copy Share Image
“The first day of January always presents to my mind a train of very solemn and important reflections and a question more… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more… — Charlotte Brontë Choice Copy Share Image
“Dr. John, throughout his whole life, was a man of luck - a man of success. And why? Because he had the… — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
“Is that the summit of earthly happiness, the end of life - to love? I don't think it is. It may be… — Charlotte Brontë Death Copy Share Image
![“[...] I daily wished more to please him; but to do so, I felt daily more and more that I must disown half my nature, stifle half my faculties, wrest my tastes from their original bent, force myself to the adoption of pursuits for which I had no natural vocation.” quote by Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c35/charlotte-bronte-144_dependence_i-daily-wished-more-to-please-him-but-to_3154280.jpg)
![“The first day of January always presents to my mind a train of very solemn and important reflections and a question more easily asked than answered frequently occurs viz: How have I improved the past year and with [what] good intentions do I view the dawn of its successor?” quote by Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7b4/charlotte-bronte-144_bronte-sisters_the-first-day-of-january-always-presents_2721269.jpg)
