“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The Brontë sisters have a renewed hold upon our imagination. They were gifted, well-educated, especially self-educated, and desperate. Their seriousness and poverty… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“Tonight, however, Dickens struck him in a different light. Beneath the author’s sentimental pity for the weak and helpless, he could discern… — Margaret Irwin Copy Share Image
“I will, in few words. You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that is in… — Charlotte Brontë 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 Copy Share Image
Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“As I exclaimed 'Jane! Jane! Jane!' a voice- I cannot tell whence the voice came, but I know whose voice it was-… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Pere Silas in Villette marshals his forces with considerable skill and subtlety. Although he claims to be momentarily taken aback by the… — Marianne Thormahlen Copy Share Image
“You think all existence lapses in as quiet a flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away. Floating on… — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre Copy Share Image
“I recalled that inward sensation I had experienced: for I could recall it, with all its unspeakable strangeness. I recalled the voice… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The present realist bases his work upon types. Miss Bronte took the individual individually; we now take the mass representatively. Who would… — Henry Bonnell Copy Share Image
“[Charlotte Brontë] once told her sisters that they were wrong - even morally wrong - in making their heroines beautiful as a… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“She picked up the book beside her. Jane Eyre. Used, bought recently in a bookshop in Camden Passage, shabby nineteenth-century binding, pages… — Michelle Cliff Copy Share Image
“I have no objection whatever to your representing me as a little eccentric, since you and your learned friends would have it… — Patrick Brontë Copy Share Image
“I suspect that Jane Austen's practice of denying herself the aid of figurative language which, as much as any of her other… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
“To be together is for us to be at once free as in solitude, as gay as in company. We talk, I… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Well has Solomon said--'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.' I would not… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“When Crimsworth praises Frances’s devoir and counsels her to cultivate her faculties, she replies not in words, but with a smile ‘in… — Claire Harman Copy Share Image
“You ask me if I do not think that men are strange beings - I do indeed, I have often thought so… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Have you heard from his lordship lately?” I asked. “Oh no! About six months ago I had indeed one little note, but… — Charlotte Brontë 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 Copy Share Image
“...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
