“Speak," he urged. "What about, sir?" "Whatever you like. I leave both the choice of subject and the manner of treating it… — Charlotte Brontë Speak Copy Share Image
“Come, Miss Jane, don't cry,' said Bessie, as she finished. She might as well have said to the fire, 'Don't burn!' but… — Charlotte Brontë Suffering Copy Share Image
“Dintotdeauna, de cand ma stiu, mi-a placut sa cunosc adevarul in toate [...] Chiar daca inima ne tresare de spaima, acea tresarire… — Charlotte Brontë Amor Copy Share Image
“Don’t talk to me about her, John: I told you not to go near her; she is not worthy of notice; I… — Charlotte Brontë Sister Copy Share Image
“He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not,… — Charlotte Brontë God Copy Share Image
“You do not know how the people of this country bear malice. It is the boast of some of them that they… — Charlotte Brontë Malice Copy Share Image
“My state of mind, and all accompanying circumstances, were just now such as most to favour the adoption of a new, resolute,… — Charlotte Brontë Daring Copy Share Image
“[...] I could not go on for ever so: I want to enjoy my own faculties as well as to cultivate those… — Charlotte Brontë Education Copy Share Image
“And, moreover, you need not for a moment to insinuate that the virtues have taken refuge in cottages and wholly abandoned slated… — Charlotte Brontë Character Copy Share Image
“My reader, I know, is one who would not thank me for an elaborate reproduction of poetic first impressions; and it is… — Charlotte Brontë Books Copy Share Image
“One morning at the end of the two years, as I was writing a letter to his dictation, he came and bent… — Charlotte Brontë Blue dress Copy Share Image
“These struggles with the natural character, the strong native bent of the heart, may seem futile and fruitless, but in the end… — Charlotte Bronte Character Copy Share Image
“Shall I?” I said briefly; and I looked at his features, beautiful in their harmony, but strangely formidable in their still severity;… — Charlotte Brontë Heart and mind Copy Share Image
“Meantime, let me ask myself one question--Which is better?--To have surrendered to temptation; listened to passion; made no painful effort--no struggle;--but to… — Charlotte Brontë Love Copy Share Image
Because when she failed, I saw how she might have succeeded. Arrows that continually glanced off from Mr. Rochester's breast and fell… — Charlotte Bronte Arrows Copy Share Image
“I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or hear in her… — Charlotte Brontë Beauty Copy Share Image
“I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But go after him;… — Charlotte Brontë Dignity Copy Share Image
“He prizes me as a soldier would a good weapon, and that is all. [...] Can I receive from him the bridal… — Charlotte Brontë Love Copy Share Image
“No man—no woman—is always strong, always able to bear up against the unjust opinion, the vilifying word. Calumny, even from the mouth… — Charlotte Brontë Woman Strong Copy Share Image
“The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all; and to “burst” with boldness and good-will into “the silent sea” of their souls is… — Charlotte Brontë Boldness Copy Share Image
“(But) I learned in time that this benignity, this cordiality, this music, belonged in no shape to me: it was a part… — Charlotte Brontë Cordiality Copy Share Image
But I tell you--and mark my words--you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of… — Charlotte Bronte Atoms Copy Share Image
“And what is hell? Can you tell me that?” “A pit full of fire.” “And should you like to fall into that… — Charlotte Bronte Burning Copy Share Image
“It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it… — Charlotte Brontë Peace Copy Share Image
I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.… — Charlotte Bronte Alive Copy Share Image
“I know she re-entered her prison with pain, with reluctance, with a moan and a long shiver. The divorced mates, Spirit and… — Charlotte Brontë Prison Copy Share Image
I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid,… — Charlotte Bronte Bars Copy Share Image
You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You… — Charlotte Bronte Given Copy Share Image
“There are human tempers, bland, glowing, and genial, within whose influence it is as good for the poor in spirit to live,… — Charlotte Brontë Nature of man Copy Share Image
Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to… — Charlotte Bronte Animosity Copy Share Image
Monsieur, sit down; listen to me. I am not a heathen, I am not hard-hearted, I am not unchristian, I am not… — Charlotte Bronte Believe Copy Share Image
“I am disposed to be as content as a queen, and you try to stir me up to restlessness! To what end?"… — Charlotte Brontë God Copy Share Image
“Postoje stanovite ličnosti koje uzajamno utječu jedna na drugu, i to tako da što više govore, to više imaju reći jedno drugome.… — Charlotte Brontë Razgovor Copy Share Image
“You are my sympathy - my better self - my good angel; I am bound to you by a strong attachment. I… — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
“Humph! Promptly spoken. But I won’t allow that, seeing that it would never suit my case, as I have made an indifferent,… — Charlotte Brontë Promptly Spoken Copy Share Image
I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in… — Charlotte Bronte Afternoon Copy Share Image
I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a… — Charlotte Bronte Agony Copy Share Image
My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of… — Charlotte Bronte Bleak Copy Share Image
Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how… — Charlotte Bronte Analysis Copy Share Image
It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the… — Charlotte Bronte Gone Copy Share Image