There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body… — Charlotte Bronte Body Copy Share Image
As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself. — Charlotte Bronte Draws Copy Share Image
“Such was the bridal-hour of Genius and Humanity. Who shall rehearse the tale of their after-union? Who shall depict its bliss and… — Charlotte Brontë God Copy Share Image
This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the… — Charlotte Bronte Carrie Copy Share Image
“you think all existence lapses in a quiet flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away” — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
“One morning I fell to sketching a face: what sort of a face it was to be, I did not care or… — Charlotte Brontë Mr rochester 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 Psychology Copy Share Image
Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at… — Charlotte Bronte Bed 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
“And again, as she intercepted his cup in passing, and would stir the sugar and put in the cream herself, 'I always… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare, I do not love you:” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done,… — Charlotte Brontë Ambition Copy Share Image
“Absolutely, sir! Oh, you need not be jealous! I wanted to tease you a little to make you less sad: I thought… — Charlotte Brontë Chapter-37 Copy Share Image
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. — Charlotte Bronte Men Copy Share Image
“I regained my couch, but never thought of sleep. Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where… — Charlotte Brontë Joy Copy Share Image
It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is… — Charlotte Bronte Doe Copy Share Image
“And as I had lifted no petition to Heaven to avert it - as I had neither joined my hands, nor bent… — Charlotte Brontë Death 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 Music Copy Share Image
“My spirits were excited, and with pleasure and ease I talked to him during supper, and for a long time after. There… — Charlotte Brontë Complement Copy Share Image
“What good it would have done me at that time to have been tossed in the storms of an uncertain struggling like,… — Charlotte Brontë Bitter experience Copy Share Image
“To live amidst general regard, though it be but the regard of working people, is like 'sitting in sunshine, calm and sweet':… — Charlotte Brontë Sunshine Copy Share Image
