I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break...… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Keep to your caste and be too self-respecting to lavish the love of the whole heart, soul and strength where such a… — Charlotte Brontë Love Copy Share Image
“So this subject is done with. It is right to look our life-accounts bravely in the face now and then, and settle… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Read the New Testament, and observe what Christ says, and how he acts-make his world your rule, and his conduct your example.” — Charlotte Brontë Bible Copy Share Image
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!'… — Charlotte Bronte Anguish Copy Share Image
All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest… — Charlotte Bronte Exile Copy Share Image
“I considered; my life was so wretched it must be changed, or I must die. After a season of darkness and struggling,… — Charlotte Brontë Darkness Copy Share Image
Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile… — Charlotte Bronte Body Copy Share Image
“And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want: not alone your brittle frame. Of yourself you… — Charlotte Brontë Essence Copy Share Image
“Well, what did he want?" "Merely to tell you that your uncle, Mr. Eyre of Madeira, is dead; that he has left… — Charlotte Brontë Uncle Copy Share Image
I don't wish to treat you like an inferior: that is (correcting himself), I claim only such superiority as must result from… — Charlotte Bronte Age Copy Share Image
“I have been wrongly accused; and you, ma'am, and everybody else, will now think me wicked." "We shall think you what you… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and… — Charlotte Bronte Aging Copy Share Image
“Hopeless of the future, I wished but this- that my Maker had that night thought good to require my soul of me… — Charlotte Brontë Death Copy Share Image
“It is right to look our life-accounts bravely in the face now and then, and settle them honestly. And he is a… — Charlotte Brontë Anguish Copy Share Image
“Never,” said he, as he ground his teeth, “never was anything at once so frail and so indomitable. A mere reed she… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance, were almost dreaded by me,… — Charlotte Brontë Anxious Copy Share Image
“It little mattered whether my curiosity irritated him: I knew the pleasure of vexing and soothing him by turns; it was one… — Charlotte Brontë Curiosity Copy Share Image
“By the clock of St Jean Baptiste, that dream remained scarce fifteen minutes--a brief space, but sufficing to wring my whole frame… — Charlotte Brontë Dreams Copy Share Image
“Oh, you are indeed there, my skylark! Come to me. You are not gone: not vanished? I heard one of your kind… — Charlotte Brontë Music Copy Share Image
But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at… — Charlotte Bronte Consent Copy Share Image
“Then you and I should bid good-bye for a little while?" I suppose so, sir." And how do people perform that ceremony… — Charlotte Bronte Farewell Copy Share Image
“Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear.” — Charlotte Brontë Fear Copy Share Image
“Vain favour! coming, like most other favours long deferred and often wished for, too late!” — Charlotte Brontë Too late Copy Share Image
“Little things recall us to earth. The clock struck in the hall; that sufficed. I turned from the moon and the stars,… — Charlotte Brontë Astronomy Copy Share Image
Rochester: My bride is here, because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me? — Charlotte Bronte Bride Copy Share Image
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely… — Charlotte Bronte Creative Copy Share Image
Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Left alone, I was passive; repulsed, I withdrew; forgotten — my lips would not utter, nor my eyes dart a reminder.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I felt physically weak and broken down, but my worse ailment was an unutterable wretchedness of mind; a wretchedness which kept drawing… — Charlotte Brontë Psychology Copy Share Image
The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Do you think me, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless?” — Charlotte Brontë Courageous Copy Share Image
Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering… — Charlotte Bronte Friend Copy Share Image
“during that time he made me feel what severe punishment a good yet stern, a conscientious yet implacable man can inflict on… — Charlotte Brontë Punishment Copy Share Image
“Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most… — Charlotte Brontë Art Copy Share Image
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“At eighteen most people wish to please, and the conviction that they have not an exterior likely to second that desire brings… — Charlotte Brontë Desire Copy Share Image
