To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother. And yet… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I fear a high wind, because storm demands that exertion of strength and use of action I always yield with pain; but… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Take the matter as you find it ask no questions, utter no remonstrances; it is your best wisdom. You expected bread and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I was for a while troubled with a haunting fear that if i handled the flower freely its bloom would fade -the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The same hostile roof now again rose before me; my prospects were doubtful yet; and I had yet an aching heart: I… — Charlotte Bronte 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 Copy Share Image
“I really did not expect any Grace to answer, for the laugh was as tragic, as preternatural a laugh as any I… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night; too serene for the companionship of fear. We know that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“That night I never thought to sleep; but a slumber fell on me as soon as I lay down in bed. I… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“A safe, still night; too serene for the companionship of fear. We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“my fear had by now passed its limit, and other feelings took its place.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“No fear of death will darken St. John's last hour: his mind will be unclouded, his heart will be undaunted, his hope… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? My hopes of being numbered… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment—far worse than my abandonment—how it goaded me! It was a barbed arrow-head in my breast; it… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I still felt as a wanderer on the face of the earth,but i experienced firmer trust in myself and my own powers… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night. I wanted to hear his… — 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
