“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
“He saw nature - he saw books through me; and never did I weary of gazing for his behalf, and of putting… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“My reader, I know, is one who would not thank me for an elaborate reproduction of poetic first impressions; and it is… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I see you are in a dilemma, and one of a peculiar and difficult nature. Two paths lie before you; you conscientiously… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“They spoke almost as loud as Feeling: and that clamoured wildly. "Oh, comply!" it said. "Think of his misery; think of his… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The same hostile roof now again rose before me; my prospects were doubtful yet; and I had yet an aching heart: I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“In catalepsy and a dead trance, I studiously held the quick of my nature.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I would beg… — 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
Jane Eyre "I desired more...than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness… — 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
“I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blessed.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“He showed the fineness of his nature by being kinder to me after that misunderstanding than before. Nay, the very incident which,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“But as his wife - at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked - forced to keep the fire of… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“With animals I feel I am Adam's son; the heir of him to whom dominion was given over "every living thing that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upwards, take an interest, believe to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could… — Charlotte Bronte 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 Brontë Copy Share Image
“These struggles with the natural character, the strong native bent of the heart, may seem futile and fruitless, but in the end… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“There was I, then, mounted aloft; I, who had said I could not bear the shame of standing on my natural feet… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Having thus acknowledged what I owe those who have aided and approved me, I turn to another class; a small one, so… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“These were vile discoveries; but except for the treachery of concealment, I should have made them no subject of reproach to my… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“These struggles with the natural character, the strong native bent of the heart, may seem futile and fruitless, but in the end… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? My hopes of being numbered… — 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
