“Some have won a wild delight, By daring wilder sorrow; Could I gain thy love to-night, I'd hazard death to-morrow.” — Charlotte Brontë Bravery Copy Share Image
“Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned? Why could I never please? Why was it useless to… — Charlotte Brontë Suffering Copy Share Image
“To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions.” — Charlotte Brontë Public Indulgent Copy Share Image
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. — Charlotte Bronte Adoration Copy Share Image
“Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman — almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was… — Charlotte Brontë Heart Copy Share Image
“Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are the attributes… — Charlotte Brontë Angel Copy Share Image
“that I have wakened out of most glorious dreams, and found them all void and vain, is a horror I could bear… — Charlotte Brontë Dreams Copy Share Image
“I shall never more know the sweet homage given to beauty, youth and grace - for never to any else shall I… — Charlotte Brontë Beauty Copy Share Image
“words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. My thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it… — Charlotte Brontë Acknowledgment Copy Share Image
“But let me not hate and despise myself too much for these feelings; I know them to be wrong – that is… — Charlotte Brontë Feelings Copy Share Image
I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be… — Charlotte Bronte Creation 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 Papa Self 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 Slatternly 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
“One moment longer," whispered solitude and the summer moon, "stay with us: all is truly quiet now; for another quarter of an… — Charlotte Brontë Quiet 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 Feeling 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
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
“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
“...you think too much of the love of human beings; you are too impulsive, too vehement: the sovereign hand that created your… — Charlotte Brontë Beings Copy Share Image
“Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a seat apart from them, near the… — Charlotte Brontë Art Copy Share Image
The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied… — Charlotte Bronte Anathema Copy Share Image
I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd,… — Charlotte Bronte Arms Copy Share Image
“I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is… — Charlotte Brontë Grieve Copy Share Image
“But are you sure you are not in the position of those conquerors whose triumphs have cost them too dear?” — Charlotte Brontë Conquerors Copy Share Image
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it. — Charlotte Bronte Different Copy Share Image
Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It… — Charlotte Bronte Antipathy Copy Share Image
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. — Charlotte Bronte Constructed Copy Share Image
“Her beauty, her pink cheeks, and golden curls, seemed to give delight to all who looked at her and to purchase indemnity… — Charlotte Brontë Beauty Copy Share Image
“I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare, I do not love you:” — Charlotte Brontë Deceitful Copy Share Image
“I heard the gallop of a horse at a distance on the road; I was sure it was you; and you were… — Charlotte Brontë Gallop Copy Share Image
I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion. — Charlotte Bronte Companion Copy Share Image
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make… — Charlotte Bronte Action Copy Share Image
“All that surrounds him hastens to decay; all declines and degenerates under his sceptre. Your god is a masked Death.” — Charlotte Brontë God Masked Copy Share Image
“I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.… — Charlotte Brontë Honour Copy Share Image
“This notice has been written, because I felt it a sacred duty to wipe the dust off their gravestones, and leave their… — Charlotte Brontë Gravestones Copy Share Image
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial. — Charlotte Bronte Kind Copy Share Image
Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say… — Charlotte Bronte Bears Copy Share Image
