Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night--… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe in the silence and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday -… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“It was not without a certain wild pleasure I ran before the wind, delivering my trouble of mind to the measureless air-torrent… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“When I tried to pray I could only utter these words: “From my youth up Thy terrors have I suffered with a… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are the attributes… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Observe her when she has some knitting, or some other woman's work in hand, and sits the image of peace, calmly intent… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Shall I?” I said briefly; and I looked at his features, beautiful in their harmony, but strangely formidable in their still severity;… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“What will you do with your accomplishments? What, with the largest portion of your mind - sentiments - tastes?" Save them till… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I might have been different, I might have been as good as you - wiser - almost stainless. I envy your peace… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Some time in the afternoon I raised my head, and looking round and seeing the western sun gilding the sign of its… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I know what sort of a mind I have placed in communication with my own: I know it is one not liable… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Happiness is the cure—a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“You know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love of which I am capable. Every atom of your flesh… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I felt physically weak and broken down, but my worse ailment was an unutterable wretchedness of mind; a wretchedness which kept drawing… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I replied that I did not quite know what my ailment had been, but that I had certainly suffered a good deal… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“By degrees, he acquired a certain influence over me that took away my liberty of mind: his praise and notice were more… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence, with what I delight in,—with an original, a vigorous, an expanded mind.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“[...] I could not go on for ever so: I want to enjoy my own faculties as well as to cultivate those… — 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
