The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator. — Charlotte Bronte Eagerness Copy Share Image
“Do not let me think of them too often, too much, too fondly,' I implored: 'let me be content with a temperate… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I shall never more know the sweet homage given to beauty, youth and grace - for never to any else shall I… — Charlotte Brontë Beauty Copy Share Image
“But soon I said to myself, “The Hope I am bemoaning suffered and made me suffer much: it did not die till… — Charlotte Brontë Death Copy Share Image
“Something real, cool, and solid, lies before you something unromantic as Monday morning, when all who have work wake with the consciousness… — Charlotte Brontë Monday Copy Share Image
“Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most… — Charlotte Brontë Art Copy Share Image
“Your fortune is yet doubtful: when I examined your face, one trait contradicted another.” — Charlotte Brontë Wealth Copy Share Image
“The world can understand well enough the process of perishing for want of food: perhaps few persons can enter into or follow… — Charlotte Brontë Compassion Copy Share Image
“No sooner did I see that his attention was riveted on them, and that I might gaze without being observed, than my… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is… — Charlotte Bronte Earth Copy Share Image
“Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman — almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was… — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
“Dr. John, throughout his whole life, was a man of luck - a man of success. And why? Because he had the… — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and… — Charlotte Bronte Born Copy Share Image
“during that time he made me feel what severe punishment a good yet stern, a conscientious yet implacable man can inflict on… — Charlotte Brontë Time Copy Share Image
“Hopeless of the future, I wished but this- that my Maker had that night thought good to require my soul of me… — Charlotte Brontë Death Copy Share Image
You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself… — Charlotte Bronte Appetite Copy Share Image
“I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature, despair. I think that on a… — Charlotte Brontë Despair Copy Share Image
“Her beauty, her pink cheeks, and golden curls, seemed to give delight to all who looked at her and to purchase indemnity… — Charlotte Brontë Beauty Copy Share Image
I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the… — Charlotte Bronte Crime Copy Share Image
“Life is too short to continue hating anyone for along time. We all have faults, but the time will come soon when… — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
“When you behold an aspect for whose constant gloom and frown you cannot account, whose unvarying cloud exasperates you by its apparent… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The case is very plain before me. In leaving England, I should leave a loved but empty land — Mr. Rochester is… — Charlotte Brontë Change Copy Share Image