“To live, for me, Jane, is to stand on a crater-crust which may crack and spue fire any day.” — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
“Where, indeed, does the moon not look well? What is the scene, confined or expansive, which her orb does not hallow?” — Charlotte Bronte Moon Copy Share Image
“I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small… — Charlotte Brontë Agony Copy Share Image
“You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love.” — Charlotte Brontë Jealousy Copy Share Image
“I have a right to get pleasure out of life: and I will get it, cost what it may.” “Then you will… — Charlotte Brontë Degenerate Copy Share Image
“It is evening. I have dismissed, with the fee of an orange, the little orphan who serves me as a handmaid. ” — Charlotte Brontë Handmaid Copy Share Image
It is a long way off, sir" "From what Jane?" "From England and from Thornfield: and ___" "Well?" "From you, sir — Charlotte Bronte England Copy Share Image
“Your fortune is yet doubtful: when I examined your face, one trait contradicted another.” — Charlotte Brontë Wealth 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 Hating 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 Body Copy Share Image
“I would have got past Mr. Rochester's chamber without pause; but my heart momentarily stopping its beat at that threshold, my foot… — Charlotte Brontë Classics-curriculum 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 Blooming Copy Share Image
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour,… — Charlotte Bronte First time Copy Share Image
“I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track… — Charlotte Brontë Creativity Copy Share Image
The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The… — Charlotte Bronte Cities Copy Share Image
There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I… — Charlotte Bronte Arms Copy Share Image
“I really did not expect any Grace to answer, for the laugh was as tragic, as preternatural a laugh as any I… — Charlotte Brontë Fear Copy Share Image
I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what… — Charlotte Bronte Accurate Copy Share Image
No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought… — Charlotte Bronte Awful Copy Share Image
I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at… — Charlotte Bronte Blunders Copy Share Image
“All men, taken singly, are more or less selfish; and taken in bodies, they are intensely so. The British merchant is no… — Charlotte Brontë Making money Copy Share Image
Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night--… — Charlotte Bronte Bars 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
But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break. — Charlotte Bronte Break 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 Dislike Copy Share Image
'My bride is here,' Rochester said , again drawing me to him, 'because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will… — Charlotte Bronte Bride Copy Share Image
“Don’t cling so tenaciously to ties of the flesh; save your constancy and ardour for an adequate cause; forbear to waste them… — Charlotte Brontë Ties Flesh Copy Share Image
The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me,… — Charlotte Bronte Ease Copy Share Image
“Religion called – Angels beckoned – God commanded – life rolled together like a scroll – death's gates opening showed eternity beyond.” — Charlotte Brontë Death Copy Share Image
“What do I want? A new place, in a new house, amongst new faces, under new circumstances.” — Charlotte Brontë Home Copy Share Image
“Come, Miss Jane, don’t cry,' said Bessie…She might as well have said to the fire, ‘don’t burn!” — Charlotte Brontë Burn Copy Share Image
“This little man was of the order of beings who must not be opposed, unless you possessed an all-dominant force sufficient to… — Charlotte Brontë Confidence Copy Share Image
“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our… — Charlotte Bronte Foundation Copy Share Image
“Jane: "St John dresses well. He is a handsome man: tall, fair, with blue eyes and a Grecian profile." Rochester:(Aside) "Damn him!"… — Charlotte Brontë Handsome Copy Share Image
“The inanimate objects were not changed; but the living things had altered past recognition.” — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand - they only. Know… — Charlotte Bronte Anchored Copy Share Image
“Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is… — Charlotte Brontë Nature Copy Share Image
“It was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.” — Charlotte Brontë Peace Copy Share Image
“With animals I feel I am Adam's son; the heir of him to whom dominion was given over "every living thing that… — Charlotte Brontë Adam Copy Share Image
