All Charlotte Bronte Quotes
- you may fume and fidget as you please: but this is the best plan to pursue with you, I am certain. I like you more… Advantage
- Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me. Abruptly
- Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein. Chance
- All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from… All
- Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. Assail
- Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said, whispering mysteriously. Fairy
- No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness… Advice
- It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port… Adrift
- Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. Bitter
- I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night. I wanted to hear his voice again, yet… Both
- Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general… Arraigned
- I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me. For when I say… Attract
- I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock.… Counterfeit
- Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for… All
- Emily suffers no more from pain or weakness now. She will never suffer more in this world. She is gone after a hard, short conflict...Yes… Anguish
- To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage. Advantage
- There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such… All
- Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force! Far
- Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as… Employed
- The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general… Any
- Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear… Avoid
- A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance. Beauty
- For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and… Accustomed
- He is not to them what he is to me," I thought: "he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine- I… Akin
- Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes. Always Forget