All Charlotte Bronte Quotes
- Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. Dread
- But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills… Always Master
- As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream. Dream
- Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May… Agised
- I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead… Entreat
- It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman… All
- I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must be an exquisite… Blot
- I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an… Afford
- I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected;… Affection
- There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. Addition
- Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Atom
- To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts —… Bends
- Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise… Body
- I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither… All
- The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. Companionship
- Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. Depression
- When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to… Hard
- You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose… Appetite
- Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day. Day
- I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends! Deliver
- Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm. Always Hide
- As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself. Draw
- I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had… Amidst
- It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all… All
- I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.' - Jane Eyre Breathe