“Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though… — Charlotte Brontë Antipathy Copy Share Image
Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched… — Charlotte Brontë Automaton Copy Share Image
“now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements,… — Charlotte Brontë Hope Copy Share Image
The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“But as his wife - at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked - forced to keep the fire of… — Charlotte Brontë Marriage Copy Share Image
“Certainly, at some hour, though perhaps not your hour, the waiting waters will stir; in some shape, though perhaps not the shape… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The love, born of beauty was not mine; I had nothing in common with it: I could not dare to meddle with… — Charlotte Brontë Beauty Copy Share Image
“I could not unlove him, because I felt sure he would soon marry this very lady-because I read daily in her a… — Charlotte Brontë Courtship Copy Share Image
“They spoke almost as loud as Feeling: and that clamoured wildly. "Oh, comply!" it said. "Think of his misery; think of his… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Probably, if I had lately left a good home and kind parents, this would have been the hour when I should most… — Charlotte Brontë Parenting Copy Share Image
“If Shirley were not an indolent, a reckless, an ignorant being, she would take a pen at such moments, or at least… — Charlotte Brontë Dreams Copy Share Image
“Much better," I said calmly. "Much better, I thank you, Dr. John." For, reader, this tall young man - this darling son… — Charlotte Brontë Books Copy Share Image
Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Is it really for love he is going to marry you?” She asked. I was so hurt by her coldness and scepticism… — Charlotte Brontë Love Copy Share Image
I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you… — Charlotte Bronte Age Copy Share Image
“Your dress is thin, you have been dancing, you are heated." "Always preaching," retorted she; "always coddling and admonishing." The answer Dr.… — Charlotte Brontë Broken ; heart Copy Share Image
“To this crib I always took my doll; human beigns must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection,… — Charlotte Brontë Love Copy Share Image
“it is madness in al women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the… — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
“Unjust! - unjust!' said my reason, forced by the agonising stimulus into precocious though transitory power; and Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated… — Charlotte Bronte Intelligence Copy Share Image
“I have heard of daydreams – is she in a daydream now? Her eyes are fixed on the floor, but I am… — Charlotte Brontë Daydream Copy Share Image
“But if you wish me to love you, could you but see how much I do love you, you would be proud… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“it was a pity Mr. Brocklehurst could not see them too; he would perhaps have felt that, whatever he might do with… — Charlotte Brontë Pity Copy Share Image
I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Whenever I went out, I heard on all sides cordial salutations, and was welcomed with friendly smiles. To live amidst general regard,… — Charlotte Brontë Friendship Copy Share Image
“I had a keen delight in receiving the new ideas he offered, in imagining the new pictures he portrayed, and following him… — Charlotte Brontë New ideas Copy Share Image
You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me… — Charlotte Bronte Compassion Copy Share Image
You have introduced a topic on which our natures are at variance - a topic we should never discuss: the very name… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“It was my time to assume ascendency. My powers were in-play and in force. I told him to forbear question or remark;… — Charlotte Brontë Obedience Copy Share Image
“Ay, I am proud, and so are ye; but your pride and mine is t’ raight mak — what we call i’… — Charlotte Brontë Pride Copy Share Image
“[...] I daily wished more to please him; but to do so, I felt daily more and more that I must disown… — Charlotte Brontë Dependence 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 Swindler Copy Share Image
“Look here; to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly… — Charlotte Brontë Affection Copy Share Image
“Think meanly of me, Lina," said he. "Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“-Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is a skillful architect. - And interest? -yes,… — Charlotte Brontë Architecture Copy Share Image
“One lies there," I thought, "who will soon be beyond the war of earthly elements. Whither will that spirit -- now struggling… — Charlotte Brontë Thought Copy Share Image
“Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to draw so near to him?” I asked myself. “Surely she… — Charlotte Bronte Affection Copy Share Image
![“[...] I daily wished more to please him; but to do so, I felt daily more and more that I must disown half my nature, stifle half my faculties, wrest my tastes from their original bent, force myself to the adoption of pursuits for which I had no natural vocation.” quote by Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c35/charlotte-bronte-144_dependence_i-daily-wished-more-to-please-him-but-to_3154280.jpg)
