“If I failed in what I now designed to undertake, who, save myself, would suffer?” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means. — Charlotte Bronte Integrity Copy Share Image
I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman. — Charlotte Bronte Books Copy Share Image
“Well said, forehead; your declaration shall be respected.” — Charlotte Brontë Declaration Copy Share Image
I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. — Charlotte Bronte Angel Copy Share Image
And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I think I shall like you again, and yet again: and I will make you confess I do not only like, but… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I… — Charlotte Bronte Deceit Copy Share Image
“I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence, with what I delight in,—with an original, a vigorous, an expanded mind.” — Charlotte Brontë Face to face Copy Share Image
“Superstition was with me at that moment, but it was not yet her hour for complete victory.” — Charlotte Brontë Moment Copy Share Image
“His chest heaved once, as if his large heart, weary of despotic constriction, had expanded, despite the will, and made a vigorous… — Charlotte Brontë Freedom Copy Share Image
“Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her brain astir, furnished… — Charlotte Brontë Book Copy Share Image
I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion. — Charlotte Bronte Companion Copy Share Image
“I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.… — Charlotte Brontë Honour Copy Share Image
“A deal of people, Miss, are for trusting all to Providence; but I say Providence will not dispense with the means, though… — Charlotte Brontë Trust Copy Share Image
I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity, and so on: but they forget… — Charlotte Brontë Bitterness Copy Share Image
My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a… — Charlotte Bronte Agony Copy Share Image
I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Humph! Promptly spoken. But I won’t allow that, seeing that it would never suit my case, as I have made an indifferent,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Je fais mon lit et mon ménage; I seek my dinner in a restaurant; my supper takes care, of itself; I pass… — Charlotte Brontë Bible Copy Share Image
“Oh, I am so sick of the young men of the present day!” exclaimed she, rattling away at the instrument. “Poor, puny… — Charlotte Brontë Men Copy Share Image
“The truest love that ever heart Felt at its kindled core, Did through each vein, in quickened start, The tide of being… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“It was not without a certain wild pleasure I ran before the wind, delivering my trouble of mind to the measureless air-torrent… — Charlotte Brontë Amazing Copy Share Image
“This harsh little man — this pitiless censor — gathers up all your poor scattered sins of vanity, your luckless chiffon of… — Charlotte Brontë Charlotte-bronte Copy Share Image
“Daca ea ar fi fost o femeie buna si nobila, inzestrata cu forta, blandete pasiune si bun-simt, as fi purtat o singura… — Charlotte Brontë Amor Copy Share Image
“Yet, when this cherished volume was now placed in my hand—when I turned over its leaves, and sought in its marvellous pictures… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I see you are in a dilemma, and one of a peculiar and difficult nature. Two paths lie before you; you conscientiously… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Nothing refines like affection. Family jarring vulgarizes - family union elevates.” — Charlotte Brontë Family Copy Share Image
I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind. — Charlotte Bronte Blind Copy Share Image
Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England. — Charlotte Bronte Clergy Copy Share Image
