All Charlotte Bronte Quotes
- I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent. Accent
- It would not be wicked to love me." "It would to obey you. Funny
- Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken. Been
- Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the… Analyse
- It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury. Best
- Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice. Flirting
- The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life… Approach
- I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it… Answer
- You are human and fallible. Fallible
- He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' broke in anguish… Anguish
- I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what… Acute
- Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you. Heart
- Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent… Afford
- I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor… All
- I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities. Believe
- You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred! Born
- In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—November seasons of disaster, when a man's hearth… Cheer
- That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure. Affection
- What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter? Brighter
- If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will… Absent
- [I]n his presence I thoroughly lived. Funny
- Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a… Absurd
- To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have… Accept
- If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed. Conduct
- Que me voulez-vous?' said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he kept his teeth… Answer