“I have not much pride under such circumstances; I would always rather be happy than dignified.” — Charlotte Brontë Happiness Copy Share Image
To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage. — Charlotte Bronte Advantage Copy Share Image
I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me not… — Charlotte Bronte Believe Copy Share Image
“Mr. Rochester had again summoned the ladies round him, and was selecting certain of their number to be of his party. “Miss… — Charlotte Brontë Mr rochester Copy Share Image
To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls… — Charlotte Bronte Break Copy Share Image
A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; — Charlotte Bronte Books Copy Share Image
“And yet there were fragments of truth here and there which satisfied the conscience, and gleams of light that cheered the vision.” — Charlotte Brontë Dreams Copy Share Image
But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience? — Charlotte Bronte Blind Copy Share Image
“Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though… — Charlotte Brontë Antipathy Copy Share Image
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such… — Charlotte Bronte Advice Copy Share Image
Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile… — Charlotte Bronte Body Copy Share Image
No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I… — Charlotte Bronte Feels Copy Share Image
It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had… — Charlotte Bronte Anger Copy Share Image
The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs. — Charlotte Bronte Despair Copy Share Image
“I, to whom nature had denied the impromptu faculty; who, in public, was by nature a cypher; whose time of mental activity,… — Charlotte Bronte Nature Copy Share Image
“I believed in the existence of other and more vivid kinds of goodness, and what I believed in I wished to behold.… — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
“I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion cooled, how dreadful… — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
“The period of which I write was an overshadowed one in British history, and especially in the history of the northern provinces.… — Charlotte Brontë History Copy Share Image
I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [… — Charlotte Bronte Agony 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
“Liberty was the breath of Emily's nostrils; without it she perished. (about her sister)” — Charlotte Brontë Freedom Copy Share Image
“All the melody on earth is concentrated in my Jane's tongue to my ear (I am glad it is not a naturally… — Charlotte Brontë Music Copy Share Image
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure. — Charlotte Bronte Affection Copy Share Image
Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means. — Charlotte Bronte Integrity Copy Share Image
