“Every joy that life gives must be earned ere it is secured; and how hardly earned, those only know who have wrestled… — Charlotte Brontë Earned Copy Share Image
Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck… — Charlotte Bronte Again and again Copy Share Image
“What will you do with your accomplishments? What, with the largest portion of your mind - sentiments - tastes?" Save them till… — Charlotte Brontë Psychology Copy Share Image
“It is my way — it always was my way, by instinct — ever to meet the brief with brevity, the direct with plainness.” — Charlotte Brontë Plainness Copy Share Image
“Ex-act-ly, pre-cisely: with your usual acuteness, you have hit the nail straight on the head.” — Charlotte Brontë Hit Nail Copy Share Image
“I believe she thought I had forgotten my station, and yours, sir." "Station! station!--your station is in my heart.” — Charlotte Brontë Station Copy Share Image
“Make my happiness — I will make yours. God pardon me!” he subjoined ere long; “and man meddle not with me: I… — Charlotte Brontë Happiness Copy Share Image
“...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never… — Charlotte Brontë Brontes Copy Share Image
A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away-away-to an indefinite… — Charlotte Bronte Chestnuts Copy Share Image
“Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment—far worse than my abandonment—how it goaded me! It was a barbed arrow-head in my breast; it… — Charlotte Brontë Fear Copy Share Image
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are… — Charlotte Brontë Bad woman Copy Share Image
“I had silently feared St. John till now, because I had not understood him. He had held me in awe, because he… — Charlotte Brontë Feared Copy Share Image
“Diana announced that she would just give me time to get over the honey-moon, and then she would come and see me.… — Charlotte Brontë Jane-eyre Copy Share Image
Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so… — Charlotte Bronte Employed Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me; and… — Charlotte Brontë Suffering Copy Share Image
Do you like him much?" "I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so… — Charlotte Bronte Boys Copy Share Image
“But I affirm that you are: so much depressed that a few more words would bring tears to your eyes-indeed, they are… — Charlotte Brontë Depressed Copy Share Image
“There was I, then, mounted aloft; I, who had said I could not bear the shame of standing on my natural feet… — Charlotte Brontë Nature Copy Share Image
“I returned to my book—Bewick’s History of British Birds: the letterpress thereof I cared little for, generally speaking; and yet there were… — Charlotte Brontë History Copy Share Image
I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum… — Charlotte Bronte Catching Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though… — Charlotte Bronte Distance Copy Share Image
“But I do think hardly of you...and I'll tell you why--not so much because you refused to give me shelter, or regarded… — Charlotte Brontë Destitute 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 British history Copy Share Image
A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If… — Charlotte Bronte Deals Copy Share Image
“A loving eye is all the charm needed: to such you are handsome enough; or rather your sternness has a power beyond… — Charlotte Brontë Beauty Copy Share Image
“Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance… — Charlotte Brontë Death 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
“If he expects me to talk for the mere sake of talking and showing off, he will find he has addressed himself… — Charlotte Brontë Wrong person Copy Share Image
I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here. — Charlotte Bronte Dear Copy Share Image
“He did not yet known how many commenced lefe-romances are doomed never to get beyond the first, or at most the second… — Charlotte Brontë Charlottebronte Copy Share Image
I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of… — Charlotte Bronte Done Copy Share Image
After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found… — Charlotte Bronte First time Copy Share Image
There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart... — Charlotte Bronte Heart Copy Share Image
“I could bend you with my finger and my thumb. A mere reed you feel in my hands. But whatever I do… — Charlotte Brontë Bend 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
“El convencionalismo no es moralidad. La superioridad moral no es religión. Atacar primero no significa asestar el último golpe.” — Charlotte Brontë Amor Copy Share Image
There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can… — Charlotte Bronte Doe Copy Share Image
Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured… — Charlotte Bronte Appeals Copy Share Image
My wretched feet, flayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal and subside under the gentler… — Charlotte Bronte Air Copy Share Image
“I am not fond of the prattle of children,' he continued; 'for, old bachelor as I am, I have no pleasant associations… — Charlotte Brontë Children Copy Share Image
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