All Charlotte Bronte Quotes
- Reader, I married him. Classic
- Do you like him much?' I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he… All
- You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain… Accept
- I would always rather be happy than dignified. Always Rather
- No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be… Allowed
- If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge -… Answering
- Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and unable to read… Astrologers
- I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does… Absurd
- Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure -… Assign
- Gentle, soft dream, nestling in my arms now, you will fly, too, as your sisters have all fled before you: but kiss me before you… All
- It is strange,' pursued he, 'that while I love Rosomond Oliver so wildly-with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which… All
- Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I prayed a sincere and… Arms
- We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and… Clearest
- It is always the way of events in this life,...no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a voice calls out… Calls
- I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling,… Abhor
- I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more… Age
- A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always… Afraid
- Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. Called
- There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. Day
- Daydreams are the delusions of the devil. Daydreaming
- The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted. Alone
- You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face. Another World
- I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound… Angel
- At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open to ridicule as… Abide
- It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend… Action