“The case is very plain before me. In leaving England, I should leave a loved but empty land — Mr. Rochester is… — Charlotte Brontë 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
“Most true is it that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer.' My master’s colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Diana announced that she would just give me time to get over the honey-moon, and then she would come and see me.… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a seat apart from them, near the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoughts and feelings, and endeavored… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Unjust! - unjust!' said my reason, forced by the agonising stimulus into precocious though transitory power; and Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I had wakened the glow: his features beamed. 'Oh, you are indeed there, my sky-lark!” — 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
“He saw nature - he saw books through me; and never did I weary of gazing for his behalf, and of putting… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I know no medium: I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with positive, hard characters, antagonistic to… — Charlotte Brontë 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
“...his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Now, I've another errand for you,' said my untiring master; "you must away to my room again. What a mercy you are… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“And there is enchantment in the very hour I am now spending with you. Who can tell what a dark, dreary, hopeless… — Charlotte Brontë 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
“You examine me, Miss Eyre", said he. "Do you think me handsome?" I should have deliberated, have replied to this question by… — 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
“My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something: trivial, transitory though the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Absolutely, sir! Oh, you need not be jealous! I wanted to tease you a little to make you less sad: I thought… — 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
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