“I feared nothing but interruption, and that came too soon.” — Charlotte Brontë Fear Copy Share Image
“...his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.” — Charlotte Brontë Brightest Copy Share Image
Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken. — Charlotte Bronte Broken Copy Share Image
“Women are supposed to be calm generally: but women feel just as men feel...” — Charlotte Brontë Feminism Copy Share Image
“It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things.” — Charlotte Brontë Gender roles Copy Share Image
“I enjoyed that day, though we travelled slowly, though it was cold, though it rained.” — Charlotte Brontë Slowly Cold Copy Share Image
“I found Burns, absorbed, silent, abstracted from all around her by the companionship of a book, which she read by the dim… — Charlotte Bronte Book Copy Share Image
“for after all, the British peasantry are the best taught, best mannered, most self-respecting of any in Europe:” — Charlotte Brontë Best man Copy Share Image
“To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,— Is such my future fate? The morn was dreary, must the eve Be also… — Charlotte Brontë Despair Copy Share Image
Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now… — Charlotte Bronte Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“It was in looking up at him her aspect had caught its lustre - the light repeated in her eyes beamed first… — Charlotte Brontë Graham Copy Share Image
“I forgot that there were fields, woods, rivers, seas, an ever-changing sky outside the steam-dimmed lattice of this sick-chamber; I was almost… — Charlotte Brontë Forget Copy Share Image
What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter? — Charlotte Bronte Dwell on the past Copy Share Image
[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine. — Charlotte Bronte Beam Copy Share Image
My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood… — Charlotte Bronte Becoming Copy Share Image
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask… — Charlotte Brontë Character Copy Share Image
“It can never be, sir; it does not sound likely. Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not… — Charlotte Brontë Complete happiness Copy Share Image
Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking about; you… — Charlotte Bronte Darling Copy Share Image
“I know no medium: I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with positive, hard characters, antagonistic to… — Charlotte Brontë Jane-eyre Copy Share Image
“I could not see how poor people had the means of being kind, and then to learn to speak like them, to… — Charlotte Brontë Caste Copy Share Image
“I regained my couch, but never thought of sleep. Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where… — Charlotte Brontë Sleep Copy Share Image
“there was ever in Mr. Rochester (so at least I thought) such a wealth of the power of communicating happiness, that to… — Charlotte Brontë Happiness Copy Share Image
“No sooner did I see that his attention was riveted on them, and that I might gaze without being observed, than my… — Charlotte Brontë Pleasure Looking Copy Share Image
“Mr. Yorke wished to know whether this interference, vigilance, and coercion would feed those who were hungry, give work to those who… — Charlotte Brontë Coercion Copy Share Image
“Then, learn from me not to judge by appearances: I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and never keep,… — Charlotte Brontë Self -awareness Copy Share Image
“My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in… — Charlotte Bronte Disappointment Copy Share Image
“My spirits were excited, and with pleasure and ease I talked to him during supper, and for a long time after. There… — Charlotte Brontë Complement Copy Share Image
“She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that… — Charlotte Brontë Devotion Copy Share Image
“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched… — Charlotte Brontë Chapter-xxiii 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 Books Copy Share Image
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. — Charlotte Bronte Animosity Copy Share Image
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life. — Charlotte Bronte Depressing Copy Share Image
We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible. — Charlotte Bronte Acknowledge Copy Share Image
“Who are you, Miss Snowe?"... "Who am I indeed? Perhaps a personage in disguise.” — Charlotte Brontë Disguise Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like taking all you do at a moderate estimate: it keeps mind and body tranquil; whereas grandiloquent notions are… — Charlotte Brontë Mind and body Copy Share Image
“Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the… — Charlotte Brontë Wept Copy Share Image
“But you know very well you are thinking of another they, and that he is not thinking of you” — Charlotte Brontë Know Copy Share Image
“That evening more firmly than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone, and Hope a false idol… — Charlotte Brontë Spirituality Copy Share Image