Intelligence and proper education will give you independence of spirit. — Charlotte Bronte Education Copy Share Image
“Lingerer, my brain is on fire with impatience; and you tarry so long!” — Charlotte Brontë Classics Copy Share Image
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. — Charlotte Bronte Dread Copy Share Image
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. — Charlotte Bronte Backward Copy Share Image
Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules. — Charlotte Bronte Circumstances Copy Share Image
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. — Charlotte Brontë Friendless Copy Share Image
I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much. — Charlotte Bronte Enough Copy Share Image
When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once… — Charlotte Bronte Arms Copy Share Image
“for after all, the British peasantry are the best taught, best mannered, most self-respecting of any in Europe:” — Charlotte Brontë Best man Copy Share Image
“I found Burns, absorbed, silent, abstracted from all around her by the companionship of a book, which she read by the dim… — Charlotte Bronte Book Copy Share Image
“Nu prin violenta infrangi cel mai bine ura - si, cu siguranta, nici cu o razbunare nu vindeci ranile.” — Charlotte Brontë Amor Copy Share Image
“To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,— Is such my future fate? The morn was dreary, must the eve Be also… — Charlotte Brontë Despair Copy Share Image
“It was in looking up at him her aspect had caught its lustre - the light repeated in her eyes beamed first… — Charlotte Brontë Graham Copy Share Image
I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you… — Charlotte Bronte Age Copy Share Image
“Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though… — Charlotte Brontë Antipathy Copy Share Image
“now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements,… — Charlotte Brontë Hope Copy Share Image
“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched… — Charlotte Brontë Automaton 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
“I know what sort of a mind I have placed in communication with my own: I know it is one not liable… — Charlotte Brontë Communication Copy Share Image
“The world may not like to see these ideas dissevered, for it has been accustomed to blend them; finding it convenient to… — Charlotte Brontë Ideas Dissevered Copy Share Image
“He wrote because he liked to write; he did not abridge, because he cared not to abridge. He sat down, he took… — Charlotte Brontë Letter writing 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 Drawings Copy Share Image
“I had already gained the door; but, reader, I walked back--walked back as determinedly as I had retreated. I knelt down by… — Charlotte Brontë Books Copy Share Image
“Commencez!' cried I, when they had all produced their books. The moon-faced youth (by name of Jules Vanderkelkov, as I afterwards learned)… — Charlotte Brontë Books Copy Share Image
“Always there are excellent reasons for these lapses, if the hermit but knew them. Though he is stagnant in his cell, his… — Charlotte Brontë Lapses Copy Share Image
“My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in… — Charlotte Bronte Disappointment 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 Pleasure Looking Copy Share Image
“The first woman’s breast that heaved with life on this world yielded the daring which could contend with Omnipotence, the strength which… — Charlotte Brontë Death Copy Share Image
“Then, learn from me not to judge by appearances: I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and never keep,… — Charlotte Brontë Self -awareness Copy Share Image
Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know. — Charlotte Bronte Hideous Copy Share Image
“Mine was the game where the player cannot lose and may win.” — Charlotte Brontë Football Copy Share Image
Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes — Charlotte Bronte Desire Copy Share Image