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
“Where did you get your copies?" "Out of my head." "That head I see now on your shoulders?" "Yes, sir.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Si-atunci, de ce sa ne lasam prada disperarii, cand viata se termina atat de curand si moartea este o intrare atat de… — Charlotte Brontë Amor Copy Share Image
It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil… — Charlotte Bronte Action Copy Share Image
“I thought of him now-in his room-watching the sunrise; hoping I should soon come to say I would stay with him and… — Charlotte Brontë Too late Copy Share Image
I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“There is enough said. Trouble no quiet, kind heart; leave sunny imaginations hope. Let it be theirs to conceive the delight of… — Charlotte Brontë Death Copy Share Image
Now it is not everybody, even amongst our respected friends and esteemed acquaintance, whom we like to have near us, whom we… — Charlotte Bronte Acquaintance Copy Share Image
He is not to them what he is to me," I thought: "he is not of their kind. I believe he is… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body… — Charlotte Bronte Body Copy Share Image
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my… — Charlotte Bronte Acceptance Copy Share Image
“Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet… — Charlotte Bronte Courage Copy Share Image
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is… — Charlotte Bronte Angel Copy Share Image
“Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting,… — Charlotte Brontë Flower Copy Share Image
“Why don't you tremble?" "I'm not cold." "Why don't you turn pale?" "I am not sick." "Why don't you consult my art?"… — Charlotte Brontë Art Copy Share Image
“It had formerly been my endeavor to study all sides of his character: to take the bad with the good; and from… — Charlotte Brontë Character Copy Share Image
“I was at once content and stimulated with what I saw: I liked what I had seen, and wished to see more.… — Charlotte Brontë Books Copy Share Image
“Their sisters have no earthly employment but household work and sewing, no earthly pleasure but an unprofitable visiting, and no hope, in… — Charlotte Brontë Family Copy Share Image
“Oh, mention it! If I storm, you have the art of weeping." "Mr. Rochester, I must leave you." "For how long, Jane?… — Charlotte Brontë Art Copy Share Image
“The road, which should have been white, was dark with a moving mass. The rioters were assembled in front of the closed… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Well, then, with Miss Temple you are good?" "Yes, in a passive way: I make no effort; I follow as inclination guides… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than… — Charlotte Bronte Home Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I half fall asleep when I am sitting alone and fancy things that have never happened.” — Charlotte Brontë Asleep Copy Share Image
“Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment:is it not?” — Charlotte Brontë Blot Copy Share Image
After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart... — Charlotte Bronte Heart Copy Share Image
“El convencionalismo no es moralidad. La superioridad moral no es religión. Atacar primero no significa asestar el último golpe.” — Charlotte Brontë Amor Copy Share Image
“I could bend you with my finger and my thumb. A mere reed you feel in my hands. But whatever I do… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“He did not yet known how many commenced lefe-romances are doomed never to get beyond the first, or at most the second… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“And yet there were fragments of truth here and there which satisfied the conscience, and gleams of light that cheered the vision.” — Charlotte Brontë Dreams Copy Share Image
“If he expects me to talk for the mere sake of talking and showing off, he will find he has addressed himself… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
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