“I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blessed.” — Charlotte Brontë Nature Copy Share Image
Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Instead of sitting down in a retired corner, or stealing away to her own room till the procession should be marshalled, according… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Coldest the remembrance of the wider ocean--wealth, caste, custom intervened between me and what I naturally and inevitably loved.” — Charlotte Brontë Culture Copy Share Image
“There are certain things in which we so rarely meet with our double that it seems a miracle when that chance befalls.” — Charlotte Brontë Luck Copy Share Image
You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself… — Charlotte Bronte Appetite Copy Share Image
“...and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour… — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“But soon I said to myself, “The Hope I am bemoaning suffered and made me suffer much: it did not die till… — Charlotte Brontë Death Copy Share Image
“Each human being has his share of rights. I suspect it would conduce to the happiness and welfare of all if each… — Charlotte Brontë Happiness Copy Share Image
I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.' 'Station! Station!-- your station is in my heart, and on… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“To live amidst general regard, though it be but the regard of working people, is like 'sitting in sunshine, calm and sweet':… — Charlotte Brontë Sunshine Copy Share Image
“Yes Mrs Reed, to you i owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but i ought to forgive you, for you knew… — Charlotte Brontë Charlotte-bronte Copy Share Image
“The first day of January always presents to my mind a train of very solemn and important reflections and a question more… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more… — Charlotte Brontë Choice Copy Share Image
“The second picture contained for foreground only the dim peak of a hill, with grass and some leaves slanting as if by… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“You,” I said, “a favourite with Mr. Rochester? You gifted with the power of pleasing him? You of importance to him in… — Charlotte Brontë Ashamed Copy Share Image
“The world can understand well enough the process of perishing for want of food: perhaps few persons can enter into or follow… — Charlotte Brontë Compassion Copy Share Image
“The house cleared, I shut myself in, fastened the bolt that none might intrude, and proceeded—not to weep, not to mourn, I… — Charlotte Brontë Grief Copy Share Image
“My sister's disposition was not naturally gregarious; circumstances favoured and fostered her tendency to seclusion; except to go to church or take… — Charlotte Brontë Sister Copy Share Image
“I had already gained the door; but, reader, I walked back--walked back as determinedly as I had retreated. I knelt down by… — Charlotte Brontë Books Copy Share Image
“One morning I fell to sketching a face: what sort of a face it was to be, I did not care or… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Commencez!' cried I, when they had all produced their books. The moon-faced youth (by name of Jules Vanderkelkov, as I afterwards learned)… — Charlotte Brontë Books Copy Share Image
I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“That evening more firmly than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone, and Hope a false idol… — Charlotte Brontë Spirituality Copy Share Image
“But you know very well you are thinking of another they, and that he is not thinking of you” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives… — Charlotte Bronte Approach Copy Share Image
“Gratitude, and many associations, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object I best liked to see; his presence in a… — Charlotte Brontë Gratitude Copy Share Image
[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter? — Charlotte Bronte Dwell on the past Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like taking all you do at a moderate estimate: it keeps mind and body tranquil; whereas grandiloquent notions are… — Charlotte Brontë Mind and body Copy Share Image
“To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,— Is such my future fate? The morn was dreary, must the eve Be also… — Charlotte Brontë Despair Copy Share Image
“I forgot that there were fields, woods, rivers, seas, an ever-changing sky outside the steam-dimmed lattice of this sick-chamber; I was almost… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now… — Charlotte Bronte Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“It was in looking up at him her aspect had caught its lustre - the light repeated in her eyes beamed first… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I found Burns, absorbed, silent, abstracted from all around her by the companionship of a book, which she read by the dim… — Charlotte Bronte Book Copy Share Image
“for after all, the British peasantry are the best taught, best mannered, most self-respecting of any in Europe:” — Charlotte Brontë Best man Copy Share Image