“Make my happiness — I will make yours. God pardon me!” he subjoined ere long; “and man meddle not with me: I… — Charlotte Brontë Happiness Copy Share Image
“Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance… — Charlotte Brontë Death Copy Share Image
“A loving eye is all the charm needed: to such you are handsome enough; or rather your sternness has a power beyond… — Charlotte Brontë Beauty Copy Share Image
Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human… — Charlotte Bronte Decision making Copy Share Image
“While I looked, I thought myself happy, and was surprised to find myself ere long weeping--and why?” — Charlotte Brontë Happiness Copy Share Image
“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.” — Charlotte Brontë Eyes Copy Share Image
“I was a human being, and had a human being's wants: I must not linger where there was nothing to supply them.” — Charlotte Brontë Nature of man Copy Share Image
It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find… — Charlotte Bronte Absurd Copy Share Image
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Besides, I seemed to hold two lives—the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished with a… — Charlotte Brontë Daily bread Copy Share Image
“But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s faculties rise in… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“He saw nature - he saw books through me; and never did I weary of gazing for his behalf, and of putting… — Charlotte Brontë Books Copy Share Image
“Work or suffering found her listless and dejected, powerles and repining; but gaiety expanded her butterfly's wings, lit up their gold-dust and… — Charlotte Brontë Butterfly Copy Share Image
Que me voulez-vous?' said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Reader, do you know, as I do, what terror those cold people can put into the ice of their questions? How much… — Charlotte Brontë Books Copy Share Image
“When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoughts and feelings, and endeavoured… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“He was resolved, he said, to return home to the Hollow that very afternoon. Mr. Yorke, instead of opposing, aided and abetted… — Charlotte Brontë Best friend Copy Share Image
“As I exclaimed 'Jane! Jane! Jane!' a voice- I cannot tell whence the voice came, but I know whose voice it was-… — Charlotte Brontë Charlotte-bronte Copy Share Image
“I fear a high wind, because storm demands that exertion of strength and use of action I always yield with pain; but… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were the eyes of one who can remember; one whose childhood does not fade like a dream, nor whose youth… — Charlotte Brontë Children Copy Share Image
“The same hostile roof now again rose before me; my prospects were doubtful yet; and I had yet an aching heart: I… — Charlotte Bronte Fear Copy Share Image
It is strange,' pursued he, 'that while I love Rosomond Oliver so wildly-with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the… — Charlotte Bronte Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Georgiana, a more vain and absurd animal than you, was certainly never allowed to cumber the earth. You had no right to… — Charlotte Brontë Existence Copy Share Image
“Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.” — Charlotte Brontë Human life Copy Share Image
“Far rather would I be condemned to a perpetual dwelling in the infernal regions, than, even for one night, abide beneath the… — Charlotte Brontë Heathcliff Copy Share Image
As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“That bitter hour cannot be described: in truth, "the waters came into my soul; I sank in deep mire: I felt no… — Charlotte Brontë Truth Copy Share Image
“O frumusete rasfranta nu in culori delicate si gene lungi, ci una a mintii, a gesturilor, a stralucirii” — Charlotte Brontë Amor Copy Share Image
“People talk of natural sympathies ; I have heard of good genii ; there are grains of truth in the wildest fable.” — Charlotte Brontë Nature Copy Share Image
“I again felt rather like an individual of but average gastronomical powers, sitting down to feast alone at a table spread with… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“you think all existence lapses in a quiet flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away” — Charlotte Brontë Lapses Copy Share Image
Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly! — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I knew he would soon strike, and while dreading the blow, I mused on the disgusting and ugly appearance of him who… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Now here (he pointed to the leafy enclosure we had entered) all is real, sweet, and pure” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls, Boils round the naked, melancholy isles Of farthest Thule; and the Atlantic surge Pours in… — Charlotte Brontë River Copy Share Image
I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night. I wanted to hear his… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I had to stem a rapid rush of retrospective thought before I quailed to the dismal present.” — Charlotte Brontë Retrospective Copy Share Image
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
