“At eighteen most people wish to please, and the conviction that they have not an exterior likely to second that desire brings… — Charlotte Brontë Desire Copy Share Image
“Have you heard from his lordship lately?” I asked. “Oh no! About six months ago I had indeed one little note, but… — Charlotte Brontë Charlotte-bronte Copy Share Image
“Yes Mrs Reed, to you i owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but i ought to forgive you, for you knew… — Charlotte Brontë Charlotte-bronte Copy Share Image
“Belgium! name unromantic and unpoetic, yet name that whenever uttered has in my ear a sound, in my heart an echo, such… — Charlotte Brontë Travel Copy Share Image
“You have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose… — Charlotte Brontë Accuse Copy Share Image
My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it. — Charlotte Bronte Broke Copy Share Image
“My world had for some years been Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the… — Charlotte Brontë Courage Copy Share Image
“Youth is gone -- gone -- and will never come back: can't help it.” — Charlotte Brontë Youth Copy Share Image
“Reason might be right; yet no wonder we are glad at times to defy her, to rush from under her rod and… — Charlotte Brontë Hope Copy Share Image
“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.” — Charlotte Brontë Eyes Copy Share Image
To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking. — Charlotte Bronte Animated Copy Share Image
“I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of the gentlest… — Charlotte Bronte Flesh and blood Copy Share Image
“...and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour… — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years,… — Charlotte Bronte Answers Copy Share Image
“it is madness in al women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the… — Charlotte Brontë Life 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 do not know how the people of this country bear malice. It is the boast of some of them that they… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Picture me then idle, basking, plump, and happy, stretched on a cushioned deck, warmed with constant sunshine, rocked by breezes indolently soft.” — Charlotte Brontë Sunshine Copy Share Image
I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither… — Charlotte Bronte Believe 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 Nature Copy Share Image
“I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best… — Charlotte Brontë Love Copy Share Image
If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar,… — Charlotte Bronte Hate Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I half fall asleep when I am sitting alone and fancy things that have never happened.” — Charlotte Brontë Sitting alone Copy Share Image