To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Approaching quietly, she knelt on the carpet at her side, and looked over her little shoulder at her book. It was a… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by… — Charlotte Bronte 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 Copy Share Image
“He saw nature - he saw books through me; and never did I weary of gazing for his behalf, and of putting… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured… — 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 Copy Share Image
“I was at once content and stimulated with what I saw: I liked what I had seen, and wished to see more.… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“My reader, I know, is one who would not thank me for an elaborate reproduction of poetic first impressions; and it is… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I had already gained the door; but, reader, I walked back--walked back as determinedly as I had retreated. I knelt down by… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“…the matter was new to me, and I had no material for its treatment. But I got books, read up the facts,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Commencez!' cried I, when they had all produced their books. The moon-faced youth (by name of Jules Vanderkelkov, as I afterwards learned)… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Much better," I said calmly. "Much better, I thank you, Dr. John." For, reader, this tall young man - this darling son… — Charlotte Brontë 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 Copy Share Image
“Is your book interesting?' I had already formed the intention of asking her to lend it to me some day.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“To speak truth, reader, there is no excellent beauty, no accomplished grace, no refinement, without strength as excellent, as complete, as trustworthy.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I found Burns, absorbed, silent, abstracted from all around her by the companionship of a book, which she read by the dim… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“When authors write best, or at least, when they write most fluently, an influence seems to waken in them which becomes their… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“A large class of readers … will suffer greatly from the introduction into the pages of this work of words printed with… — 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 Copy Share Image
I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Blanche Ingram, after having repelled, by supercilious taciturnity, some efforts of Mrs Dent and Mrs Eshton to draw her into conversation, had… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls… — Charlotte Bronte 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 He often… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great single cloud… — Charlotte Brontë 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 can do… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were -… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Not one spark of spirit, not one symptom of resistance, would they have shown till the hand of the Corsican bandit had grasped that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
