“You know I am too English to get up a vehement friendship all at once.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes — Charlotte Bronte Desire Copy Share Image
“Mine was the game where the player cannot lose and may win.” — Charlotte Brontë Football Copy Share Image
“It agitates me that the skyline there is forever our limit, I long for the power of unlimited vision...If I could behold… — Charlotte Brontë Dreams Copy Share Image
And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame. — Charlotte Bronte Energy Copy Share Image
I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. — Charlotte Bronte Freedom Copy Share Image
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay… — Charlotte Bronte Being single Copy Share Image
“I will tell you it is my neck you are putting in peril; for whatever is yours is, in a dearer and… — Charlotte Brontë Charlotte-bronte Copy Share Image
“And if I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from these easy tasks, what preparation… — Charlotte Brontë Rain Copy Share Image
“When I tried to pray I could only utter these words: “From my youth up Thy terrors have I suffered with a… — Charlotte Brontë Psychology Copy Share Image
“Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy.” — Charlotte Brontë Dawned Copy Share Image
“His idea was still with me, because it was not a vapor sunshine could disperse, nor a sand-traced effigy storms could wash… — Charlotte Brontë Desire Copy Share Image
“Naša priroda priznaje da su naše naklonosti i antipatije čudne. Ima ljudi pred kojima se potajno zgrozimo, koje nastojimo izbjeći, iako nam… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of whichhe is not always mastersomething that at times… — Charlotte Brontë Creativity Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this may be the case, perhaps not: the frost may get into his heart and never thaw more; when spring comes,… — Charlotte Brontë Flower Copy Share Image
God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must… — Charlotte Bronte Conscience Copy Share Image
God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“In his dominions children grow unloving between parents who have never loved; infants are nursed on deception from their very birth; they… — Charlotte Brontë Children Copy Share Image
“the sovereign hand that created your frame, and put life into it, has provided you with other resources than your feeble self,… — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
“Not always do those who dare such divine conflict prevail. Night after night the sweat of agony may burst dark on the… — Charlotte Brontë Agony Copy Share Image
Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms.… — Charlotte Bronte Argument Copy Share Image
To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“What have you been doing during my absence?' 'Nothing particular; teaching Adele as usual.' 'And getting a good deal paler than you… — Charlotte Brontë Absence Copy Share Image
“Was I gleeful, settled, content, during the hours I passed in yonder bare, humble schoolroom this morning and afternoon? Not to decieve… — Charlotte Brontë Grief Copy Share Image
“I believed he was naturally a man of better tendencies, higher principles, and purer tastes than such as circumstances had developed, education… — Charlotte Brontë Education Copy Share Image
“Mr. Rochester continued to be blind the first two years of our union; perhaps it was that circumstance that drew us so… — Charlotte Brontë Blind Copy Share Image
