To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile… — Charlotte Bronte 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 Bronte Copy Share Image
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? --- that… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance, were almost dreaded by me,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Where my soul went during that swoon I cannot tell. Whatever she saw, or wherever she travelled in her trance on that… — 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
It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break...… — 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
