Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“But not love! Love is real — the most real, the most lasting, the sweetest and yet the bitterest thing we know.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“A loving eye is all the charm needed: to such you are handsome enough; or rather your sternness has a power beyond… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Some have won a wild delight, By daring wilder sorrow; Could I gain thy love to-night, I'd hazard death to-morrow.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion. — Charlotte Bronte 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
“I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“You know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love of which I am capable. Every atom of your flesh… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s faculties rise in… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
~Do you like him much? ~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want: not alone your brittle frame. Of yourself you… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“By both nature and principle, he was superior to the mean gratification of vengeance: he had forgiven me for saying I scorned… — 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
Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“He prizes me as a soldier would a good weapon, and that is all. [...] Can I receive from him the bridal… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I verily believe all that is desirable on earth--wealth, reputation, love--will for ever to you be the ripe grapes on the high… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Daca ea ar fi fost o femeie buna si nobila, inzestrata cu forta, blandete pasiune si bun-simt, as fi purtat o singura… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I believe in that goodly mansion, his heart, he kept one little place under the skylights where Lucy might have entertainment, if… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The truest love that ever heart Felt at its kindled core, Did through each vein, in quickened start, The tide of being… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I think, scathed as you look, and charred and scorched, there must be a little sense of life in you yet, rising… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“There was nothing to cool or banish love in these circumstances, though much to create despair. Much, too, you will think, reader,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Tell me now, fairy as you are - can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort,… — Charlotte Brontë 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
“Love can excuse anything except meanness; but meanness kills love, cripples even natural affection; without esteem true love cannot exist.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or bemoaning the mortifications, of… — 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