“I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Life is too short to continue hating anyone for along time. We all have faults, but the time will come soon when… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Much I marvelled at the sagacity evinced by waiters and chamber-maids in proportioning the accommodation to the guest. How could inn-servants and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Take the matter as you find it ask no questions, utter no remonstrances; it is your best wisdom. You expected bread and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Take the matter as you find it: ask no questions, utter no remonstrances; it is your best wisdom. You expected bread, and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and… — 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
