“No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every man, worthy of… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“You both think I know not what,' said I. 'Have the goodness to make me as little the subject of your mutual… — Charlotte Bronte 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
“All my life was awake and astir in my frame...and he I was not to array myself to meet.” — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I see you are in a dilemma, and one of a peculiar and difficult nature. Two paths lie before you; you conscientiously… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“You will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up… — 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
“Ill-Success failed to crush us: the mere effort to succeed had given a wonderful zest to existence; it must be pursued.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“With self-denial and economy now, and steady exertion by-and-by, an object in life need not fail you. Venture not to complain that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Descending, I went wandering whither chance might lead, in a still ecstasy of freedom and enjoyment; and I got— I know not… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I would beg… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The first woman’s breast that heaved with life on this world yielded the daring which could contend with Omnipotence, the strength which… — Charlotte Brontë 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
The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Always there are excellent reasons for these lapses, if the hermit but knew them. Though he is stagnant in his cell, his… — 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