“I am paving hell with energy... I am laying down good intentions which I believe durable as flint.” — Charlotte Brontë Energy Copy Share Image
“This pure little drop from a pure little source was too sweet: it penetrated deep, and subdued the heart” — Charlotte Brontë Drop Copy Share Image
The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted. — Charlotte Bronte Divine Copy Share Image
Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal. — Charlotte Bronte Ashamed Copy Share Image
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it… — Charlotte Bronte Certain Copy Share Image
Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine. — Charlotte Bronte Choke Copy Share Image
“Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy.” — Charlotte Brontë Dawned Copy Share Image
“When I tried to pray I could only utter these words: “From my youth up Thy terrors have I suffered with a… — Charlotte Brontë Psychology 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 Language 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
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
There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a… — Charlotte Bronte Blood Copy Share Image
“Sir, your wife is living; that is a fact acknowledged this morning by yourself. If I lived with you as you desire,… — Charlotte Brontë Marriage Copy Share Image
I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness;… — Charlotte Bronte Calamity Copy Share Image
“I know my Leader; that He is just as well as mighty; and while He has chosen a feeble instrument to perform… — Charlotte Brontë Inadequacy Copy Share Image
My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world… — Charlotte Bronte Affection Copy Share Image
“I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature, despair. I think that on a… — Charlotte Brontë Despair Copy Share Image
“I know that a stranger's hand will write to me next, to say that the good and faithful servant has been called… — Charlotte Brontë Death Copy Share Image
“Have you heard from his lordship lately?” I asked. “Oh no! About six months ago I had indeed one little note, but… — Charlotte Brontë Charlotte-bronte 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 Fate Copy Share Image
I would not be you for a kingdom.' The remark was too naïve to rouse anger; I merely said - 'Very good.'… — Charlotte Bronte Brain Copy Share Image
“The Lowood constraint still clings to you somewhat; controlling your features, muffling your voice, and restricting your limbs; and you fear in… — Charlotte Brontë Restricting Copy Share Image
“And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? --- that… — Charlotte Bronte Abyss Copy Share Image
“That night I never thought to sleep; but a slumber fell on me as soon as I lay down in bed. I… — Charlotte Brontë Children Copy Share Image
“I will tell you it is my neck you are putting in peril; for whatever is yours is, in a dearer and… — Charlotte Brontë Charlotte-bronte Copy Share Image
“And if I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from these easy tasks, what preparation… — Charlotte Brontë Rain Copy Share Image
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay… — Charlotte Bronte Being single Copy Share Image
I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. — Charlotte Bronte Freedom Copy Share Image
And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame. — Charlotte Bronte Energy Copy Share Image
“I thought not. And so you were waiting for your people when you sat on that stile?” “For whom, sir?” — Charlotte Brontë Waiting People Copy Share Image
“It agitates me that the skyline there is forever our limit, I long for the power of unlimited vision...If I could behold… — Charlotte Brontë Dreams Copy Share Image
“I see," he said," the mountain will never be brought to Mahomet, so all you can do is to aid Mahomet to… — Charlotte Brontë Mahomet Copy Share Image
“It is always the way of events in this life...no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a… — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
“Call anguish--anguish, and despair--despair; write both down in strong characters with a resolute pen: you will the better pay your debt to… — Charlotte Brontë Anguish Copy Share Image
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. — Charlotte Bronte Discussion Copy Share Image
“Tú, tú, extraña, criatura celeste, a ti es a quien amo como a mí mismo. Tú, pobre y oscura, pequeña y sencilla,… — Charlotte Brontë Amor Copy Share Image
“Ova čista mala kapljica od bistrog malog izvora bila je premila, prodirala je duboko sve do srca.” — Charlotte Brontë Kap Copy Share Image
You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and… — Charlotte Bronte Accept me Copy Share Image
“I will break obstacles to happiness, to goodness - yes, goodness. I wish to be a better man than I have been,… — Charlotte Brontë Better man Copy Share Image
“We can burst the bonds which chain us, Which cold human hands have wrought, And where none shall dare restrain us We… — Charlotte Brontë Chains Copy Share Image
