“Human feelings are queer things -- I am much happier -- black-leading the stove's -- making the beds and sweeping the floors… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Is that the summit of earthly happiness, the end of life - to love? I don't think it is. It may be… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Each human being has his share of rights. I suspect it would conduce to the happiness and welfare of all if each… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Make my happiness — I will make yours. God pardon me!” he subjoined ere long; “and man meddle not with me: I… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but one dreg of shame,… — 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
