“He is not to them what he is to me,' I thought: 'he is not of their kind. I believe he is… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish --… — Charlotte Bronte 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
“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
“To this crib I always took my doll; human beigns must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection,… — 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
“Look here; to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly… — 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
“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
It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“My spirits were excited, and with pleasure and ease I talked to him during supper, and for a long time after. There… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“You know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love which I am capable.” — 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
“I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that… — 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 will tell you it is my neck you are putting in peril; for whatever is yours is, in a dearer and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The love, born of beauty was not mine; I had nothing in common with it: I could not dare to meddle with… — 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