“I wait, with some impatience in my pulse, but no doubt in my breast.” — Charlotte Brontë Animals Copy Share Image
“What is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?” — Charlotte Brontë Youth Copy Share Image
The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator. — Charlotte Bronte Eagerness Copy Share Image
Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord. — Charlotte Bronte Accord Copy Share Image
“Oh! I will give my heart to God,” I said. “You do not want it.” — Charlotte Brontë God Copy Share Image
Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England. — Charlotte Bronte Clergy Copy Share Image
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. — Charlotte Bronte Love Copy Share Image
Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something… — Charlotte Bronte Craving Copy Share Image
Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the… — Charlotte Bronte Forgive Copy Share Image
What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme -… — Charlotte Bronte Catastrophe Copy Share Image
“You have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose… — Charlotte Brontë Accuse Copy Share Image
I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes. — Charlotte Bronte Helping Copy Share Image
I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake… — Charlotte Bronte Graves Copy Share Image
There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body… — Charlotte Bronte Body Copy Share Image
I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted… — Charlotte Bronte Bleeding Copy Share Image
“It was the strain of a forsaken lady, who after bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls her pride to her aid,… — Charlotte Brontë Fitness Copy Share Image
“One moment longer," whispered solitude and the summer moon, "stay with us: all is truly quiet now; for another quarter of an… — Charlotte Brontë Solitude Copy Share Image
“There is something in that, I know there is, because it does not sound too sweet; it is not like such words… — Charlotte Brontë Time Copy Share Image
At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open… — Charlotte Bronte Heart Copy Share Image
“And if I had loved him less I should have thought his accent and look of exultation savage; but, sitting by him,… — Charlotte Brontë Happiness Copy Share Image
“And again, as she intercepted his cup in passing, and would stir the sugar and put in the cream herself, 'I always… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and certainly never keep, things in order; I am careless; I forget… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Come, Paul!" she reiterated, her eye grazing me with its hard ray like a steel stylet. She pushed against her kinsman. I… — Charlotte Brontë Emmanuel 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 Nature Copy Share Image
All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush,… — Charlotte Bronte Aspect Copy Share Image
“I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as… — 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 Genius Copy Share Image
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a… — Charlotte Bronte Chestnuts Copy Share Image
“My task was not an easy one; often I would rather have pleased than teased him. My future husband was becoming to… — Charlotte Brontë Future husband Copy Share Image
“And your will shall decide your destiny," he said: "I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of all my… — Charlotte Brontë Love Copy Share Image
