“That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life, that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed! — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“My world had for some years been Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“...and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“it is madness in al women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. We are, and must be one and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Lucy, take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I considered; my life was so wretched it must be changed, or I must die. After a season of darkness and struggling,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Heathcliff, if I were you, I’d go stretch myself over her grave and die like a faithful dog. The world is surely… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited… — 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
