Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them. — Charlotte Bronte Excellence Copy Share Image
“How it was that what charmed so much, could at the same time so keenly pain?” — Charlotte Brontë Charm Copy Share Image
“Helen Burns’s shoulder, my arms round her neck. I was asleep, and Helen was—dead.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me? — Charlotte Bronte Delusion Copy Share Image
“What is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?” — Charlotte Brontë Headstrong Copy Share Image
“Ex-act-ly, pre-cisely: with your usual acuteness, you have hit the nail straight on the head.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“What will you do with your accomplishments? What, with the largest portion of your mind - sentiments - tastes?" Save them till… — Charlotte Brontë Psychology Copy Share Image
“It is my way — it always was my way, by instinct — ever to meet the brief with brevity, the direct with plainness.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Every joy that life gives must be earned ere it is secured; and how hardly earned, those only know who have wrestled… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not… — Charlotte Bronte Happiness Copy Share Image
If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now… — Charlotte Brontë Freedom Copy Share Image
“I have to live, perhaps, till seventy years. As far as I know, I have good health. Half a century of existence… — Charlotte Brontë Future plans Copy Share Image
I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of… — Charlotte Bronte Acquaintance Copy Share Image
“Ne treba da prodam dušu da bih ostvarila sreću. Unutar mene posedujem blago koje može da me održi u životu čak iako… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Now I have performed the part of a good host,” pursued Mr. Rochester, “put my guests into the way of amusing each… — Charlotte Brontë Freedom Copy Share Image
“And as I had lifted no petition to Heaven to avert it - as I had neither joined my hands, nor bent… — Charlotte Brontë Death Copy Share Image
“Do you think that I am a machine? That I can bear it? Do you think because I'm poor, plain, obsure, and… — Charlotte Brontë Classics Copy Share Image
“My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in… — Charlotte Brontë Difficulties Copy Share Image
“Imi stia punctele slabe si hibele, imi cunostea pana in cel mai inalt grad paralizia morala- totala mea lipsa de incredere- care… — Charlotte Brontë Amor Copy Share Image
“Where my soul went during that swoon I cannot tell. Whatever she saw, or wherever she travelled in her trance on that… — Charlotte Brontë Bronte Copy Share Image
“It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done,… — Charlotte Brontë Ambition Copy Share Image
“Alas, Experience! No other mentor has so wasted and frozen a face as yours, none wears a robe so black, none bears… — Charlotte Brontë Inspirational Copy Share Image
“By both nature and principle, he was superior to the mean gratification of vengeance: he had forgiven me for saying I scorned… — Charlotte Brontë Love Copy Share Image
“With self-denial and economy now, and steady exertion by-and-by, an object in life need not fail you. Venture not to complain that… — Charlotte Brontë Better things Copy Share Image
“When authors write best, or at least, when they write most fluently, an influence seems to waken in them which becomes their… — Charlotte Brontë Books Copy Share Image
“I used to rush into strange dreams at night: dreams many-coloured, agitated, full of the ideal, the stirring, the stormy--dreams where, amidst… — Charlotte Brontë Adventure Copy Share Image
Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother. And yet… — Charlotte Bronte Beautiful Copy Share Image
The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator. — Charlotte Bronte Eagerness Copy Share Image
Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Oh! I will give my heart to God,” I said. “You do not want it.” — Charlotte Brontë God Copy Share Image
“I wait, with some impatience in my pulse, but no doubt in my breast.” — Charlotte Brontë Animals Copy Share Image
And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image