All Charlotte Bronte Quotes
- Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all, and… All
- No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation… Bodily
- Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust,… Anticipate
- The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above… All
- One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business;… Base
- A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally, I don't even… Ago
- Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day. Day
- The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when… Almost Felt
- The shadows are as important as the light. Eloquence
- A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life. Depressing
- But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well! All
- Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and… Bird
- I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the… Anybody
- A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses;… Apples
- Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea. General
- I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you. Beheld
- Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a… Afraid
- Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. Discussion
- Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my… Get Back
- I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion. Ask
- Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth. Day
- God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart,… Among
- They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is… Acute
- If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed. Another Living
- I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find?… Accurate