To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“And, moreover, you need not for a moment to insinuate that the virtues have taken refuge in cottages and wholly abandoned slated… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? --- that… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“It had formerly been my endeavor to study all sides of his character: to take the bad with the good; and from… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.” — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break...… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I had expected him… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior to excite feeling. Pardon the seeming paradox; I mean what I… — Charlotte Brontë 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
