“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness;… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I, to whom nature had denied the impromptu faculty; who, in public, was by nature a cypher; whose time of mental activity,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“All the melody on earth is concentrated in my Jane's tongue to my ear (I am glad it is not a naturally… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Presentiments are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity… — 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
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature, despair. I think that on a… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“There are certain natures of which the mutual influence is such, that the more they say, the more they have to say.… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“But I don't mean to flatter you: if you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Not a tie hold me to human society at this moment - not a charm or hope calls me where my fellow-creatures… — Charlotte bronte Copy Share Image
You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance - a topic we should never discuss: the very name… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Georgiana, a more vain and absurd animal than you, was certainly never allowed to cumber the earth. You had no right to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“The second Mrs. Helstone, inversing the natural order of insect existence, would have fluttered through the honeymoon a bright, admired butterfly, and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest… — 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
