“How dare I, Mrs Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and that I… — 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
“You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them… — 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
“Which is better? - To have surrendered to temptation; listened to passion; made no painful effort - no struggled; - but to… — Charlotte Bronte 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
“He wrote because he liked to write; he did not abridge, because he cared not to abridge. He sat down, he took… — Charlotte Brontë 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
“Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to draw so near to him?” I asked myself. “Surely she… — Charlotte Bronte 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
“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
I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back… — 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
Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken. — Charlotte Bronte 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
~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
Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss… — Charlotte Bronte 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
I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“And your will shall decide your destiny," he said: "I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of all my… — 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. You… — 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. You… — Charlotte Bronte 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
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
