“The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle.” — Charlotte Brontë Absence Copy Share Image
“I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence, with what I delight in,—with an original, a vigorous, an expanded mind.” — Charlotte Brontë Face to face Copy Share Image
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask… — Charlotte Brontë Appearances Copy Share Image
“To speak truth, reader, there is no excellent beauty, no accomplished grace, no refinement, without strength as excellent, as complete, as trustworthy.” — Charlotte Brontë Beauty Copy Share Image
“While I looked, my inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose; I had a sudden feeling as if… — Charlotte Brontë Inner self Copy Share Image
“A mí me importa lo que hago. Cuanto más solitaria, sin amigos y sin apoyo, más me respetaré a mí misma.” — Charlotte Brontë 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
“There are people who seem to have no notion of sketching a character, or observing and describing salient points, either in persons… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“He showed the fineness of his nature by being kinder to me after that misunderstanding than before. Nay, the very incident which,… — Charlotte Brontë Depth Copy Share Image
“But as his wife - at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked - forced to keep the fire of… — Charlotte Brontë Marriage Copy Share Image
“A safe, still night; too serene for the companionship of fear. We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His… — Charlotte Brontë Fear Copy Share Image
Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms.… — Charlotte Bronte Argument Copy Share Image
“You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love.” — Charlotte Brontë Jealousy Copy Share Image
“One lies there," I thought, "who will soon be beyond the war of earthly elements. Whither will that spirit -- now struggling… — Charlotte Brontë War Copy Share Image
“With animals I feel I am Adam's son; the heir of him to whom dominion was given over "every living thing that… — Charlotte Brontë Adam Copy Share Image
“my fear had by now passed its limit, and other feelings took its place.” — Charlotte Brontë Fear Copy Share Image
“The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upwards, take an interest, believe to… — Charlotte Brontë Books Copy Share Image
I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of… — Charlotte Bronte Acquaintance Copy Share Image
“Biblical promises, heard first in health, but then unheeded, come whispering to the couch of sickness; it is felt that a pitying… — Charlotte Brontë Compassion Copy Share Image
“Look here; to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly… — Charlotte Brontë Love Copy Share Image
“Life, however, was yet in my possession; with all its requirements, and pains, and responsibilities. The burden must be carried, and want… — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
“What do I want? A new place, in a new house, amongst new faces, under new circumstances.” — Charlotte Brontë Home Copy Share Image
“Now I have performed the part of a good host,” pursued Mr. Rochester, “put my guests into the way of amusing each… — Charlotte Brontë Freedom Copy Share Image
“Into the hands of common sense I confided the matter. Common sense, however, was as chilled and bewildered as all my other… — Charlotte Brontë Trust Copy Share Image
