“...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
“And was Mr Rochester now ugly in my eyes?No,reader:gratitude and many associations, all pleasurable and genial,made his face the object I best… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
My love has placed her little hand With noble faith in mine, And vowed that wedlock's sacred band Our nature shall entwine.… — 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
“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
“I saw that he was going to marry her, for family, perhaps political reasons; because her rank and connexions suited him; I… — 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
“It seemed to me that, were I a gentleman like him, I would take to my bosom only such a wife as… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“How I wished that he could feel heart's-ease! How I grieved that he brooded over pain, and pain from such a cause!… — Charlotte Brontë 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
“And there is enchantment in the very hour I am now spending with you. Who can tell what a dark, dreary, hopeless… — Charlotte Brontë 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
“I am glad you are no relation of mine. I will never call you aunt again as long as I live. I… — Charlotte Bronte 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
“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 think too much of the love of human beings; you are too impulsive, too vehement: the sovereign hand that created your… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Come, Paul!" she reiterated, her eye grazing me with its hard ray like a steel stylet. She pushed against her kinsman. I… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“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
“It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: but… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking about; 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 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
“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
“Love can excuse anything except meanness; but meanness kills love, cripples even natural affection; without esteem true love cannot exist.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share
“You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share
