I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Was I gleeful, settled, content, during the hours I passed in yonder bare, humble schoolroom this morning and afternoon? Not to decieve… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But go after him;… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that, were I a gentleman like him, I would take to my bosom only such a wife as… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Since happiness is irrevocably denied me, I have a right to get pleasure out of life: and I will get it, cost… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Rochester talking to Jane: I see no enemy to a fortunate issue but in the brow; and that brow professes to say,--'I… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“And if I had loved him less I should have thought his accent and look of exultation savage; but, sitting by him,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.” — charlotte brönte Copy Share Image
“I do not think the sunny youth of either will prove the forerunner of stormy age. I think it is deemed good… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“You think too much of your "toilette", Adele; but you may have a flower." I took a rose from a vase and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I had enjoyed so much bliss lately that i imagined my fortune had passed its meridian and must now decline.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I will break obstacles to happiness, to goodness - yes, goodness. I wish to be a better man than I have been,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Happiness is the cure—a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“St. John,” I said, “I think you are almost wicked to talk so. I am disposed to be as content as a… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance… — 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
“While I looked, I thought myself happy, and was surprised to find myself ere long weeping--and why?” — Charlotte Brontë 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
“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
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
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
