The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs. — Charlotte Bronte Despair Copy Share Image
I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Now, when any vicious simpleton excites my disgust by his paltry ribaldry…” — Charlotte Brontë Disgust Copy Share Image
But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience? — Charlotte Bronte Blind Copy Share Image
You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream — Charlotte Bronte Dream Copy Share Image
“It is my way — it always was my way, by instinct — ever to meet the brief with brevity, the direct with plainness.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“What will you do with your accomplishments? What, with the largest portion of your mind - sentiments - tastes?" Save them till… — Charlotte Brontë Psychology Copy Share Image
Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Every joy that life gives must be earned ere it is secured; and how hardly earned, those only know who have wrestled… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Well, then, with Miss Temple you are good?" "Yes, in a passive way: I make no effort; I follow as inclination guides… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than… — Charlotte Bronte Home Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I half fall asleep when I am sitting alone and fancy things that have never happened.” — Charlotte Brontë Asleep Copy Share Image
“Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment:is it not?” — Charlotte Brontë Blot Copy Share Image
Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body… — Charlotte Bronte Body Copy Share Image
He is not to them what he is to me," I thought: "he is not of their kind. I believe he is… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Now it is not everybody, even amongst our respected friends and esteemed acquaintance, whom we like to have near us, whom we… — Charlotte Bronte Acquaintance Copy Share Image
“There is enough said. Trouble no quiet, kind heart; leave sunny imaginations hope. Let it be theirs to conceive the delight of… — Charlotte Brontë Death Copy Share Image
I don't wish to treat you like an inferior: that is (correcting himself), I claim only such superiority as must result from… — Charlotte Bronte Age Copy Share Image
“Well, what did he want?" "Merely to tell you that your uncle, Mr. Eyre of Madeira, is dead; that he has left… — Charlotte Brontë Uncle Copy Share Image
“Reader, do you know, as I do, what terror those cold people can put into the ice of their questions? How much… — Charlotte Brontë Books Copy Share Image
“And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want: not alone your brittle frame. Of yourself you… — Charlotte Brontë Essence Copy Share Image
But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at… — Charlotte Bronte Consent Copy Share Image
“There was nothing to cool or banish love in these circumstances, though much to create despair. Much, too, you will think, reader,… — Charlotte Brontë Jealousy Copy Share Image
“Oh, you are indeed there, my skylark! Come to me. You are not gone: not vanished? I heard one of your kind… — Charlotte Brontë Music Copy Share Image
“By the clock of St Jean Baptiste, that dream remained scarce fifteen minutes--a brief space, but sufficing to wring my whole frame… — Charlotte Brontë Dreams Copy Share Image
“Graham’s thoughts of me were not entirely those of a frozen indifference, after all. I believe in that goodly mansion, his heart,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Pity, Jane, from some people is a noxious and insulting sort of tribute, which one is justified in hurling back in the… — Charlotte Brontë Pity Copy Share Image
“Alas, Experience! No other mentor has so wasted and frozen a face as yours, none wears a robe so black, none bears… — Charlotte Brontë Inspirational Copy Share Image
“With self-denial and economy now, and steady exertion by-and-by, an object in life need not fail you. Venture not to complain that… — Charlotte Brontë Better things Copy Share Image
“In catalepsy and a dead trance, I studiously held the quick of my nature.” — Charlotte Brontë Nature Copy Share Image
“You know I am too English to get up a vehement friendship all at once.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Mine was the game where the player cannot lose and may win.” — Charlotte Brontë Football Copy Share Image
