“In the double gloom of trees and fog, I could not see my guide; I could only follow his tread. Not the… — Charlotte Brontë Gloom Copy Share Image
My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of… — Charlotte Bronte Bliss Copy Share Image
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice! What do I sacrifice? Famine fo food, expectation for content. To be privileged to put my arms round what I value… — Charlotte Brontë Happiness Copy Share Image
I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish --… — Charlotte Bronte Absurd Copy Share Image
“I could not see how poor people had the means of being kind, and then to learn to speak like them, to… — Charlotte Brontë Caste Copy Share Image
“I know no medium: I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with positive, hard characters, antagonistic to… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Thoughtful for Winter’s future sorrow, Its gloom and scarcity; Prescient to-day, of want to-morrow, Toiled quiet Memory. ’Tis she that from each… — Charlotte Brontë Memories Copy Share Image
“The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint: the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me,… — Charlotte Brontë Frankness Copy Share Image
“To wonder sadly, did I say? No: a new influence began to act upon my life, and sadness, for a certain space,… — Charlotte Brontë Golden light Copy Share Image
“Entering by the carré, a piece of mirror- glass, set in an oaken cabinet, repeated my image. It said I was changed:… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I knew,” he continued, “you would do me good in some way, at some time;—I saw it in your eyes when I… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“In this state of feeling, it is not to be expected that he would deliberate much as to whether his advance was… — Charlotte Brontë Daily bread Copy Share Image
“Most true is it that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer.' My master’s colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad… — Charlotte Brontë Beauty Copy Share Image
“And was Mr. Rochester now ugly in my eyes? No, reader: gratitude, and many associations, all pleasurable and genial, made his face… — Charlotte Brontë Gratitude Copy Share Image
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human… — Charlotte Bronte Boldness Copy Share Image
“A child cannot quarrel with it's elders, as I had done-cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine-without… — Charlotte Brontë Aging Copy Share Image
Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to… — Charlotte Bronte Animosity Copy Share Image
“I regained my couch, but never thought of sleep. Till morning dawned I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where… — Charlotte Brontë Sleep Copy Share Image
“there was ever in Mr. Rochester (so at least I thought) such a wealth of the power of communicating happiness, that to… — Charlotte Brontë Happiness Copy Share Image
“To be together is for us to be at once free as in solitude, as gay as in company. We talk, I… — Charlotte Brontë Business Copy Share Image
“-Da, spuse el, dupa ce ma privi cateva clipe, nu se poate nega, - e intr-adevar un chip care exprima hotararea-, e… — Charlotte Brontë Amor Copy Share Image
“Till now I had only heard, seen, moved - followed up and down where I was led or dragged - watched event… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“We know that God is everywhere…it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest… — Charlotte Brontë Omnipotence Copy Share Image
“No man — no woman — is always strong, always able to bear up against the unjust opinion, the vilifying word. Calumny,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I know my Leader; that He is just as well as mighty; and while He has chosen a feeble instrument to perform… — Charlotte Brontë Inadequacy Copy Share Image
“Sir, your wife is living; that is a fact acknowledged this morning by yourself. If I lived with you as you desire,… — Charlotte Brontë Marriage Copy Share Image
I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness;… — Charlotte Bronte Calamity Copy Share Image
There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there… — Charlotte Brontë Good people Copy Share Image
My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world… — Charlotte Bronte Affection Copy Share Image
“It was the strain of a forsaken lady, who after bewailing the perfidy of her lover, calls her pride to her aid,… — Charlotte Brontë Fitness Copy Share Image
“One moment longer," whispered solitude and the summer moon, "stay with us: all is truly quiet now; for another quarter of an… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“There is something in that, I know there is, because it does not sound too sweet; it is not like such words… — Charlotte Brontë Language Copy Share Image
I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and certainly never keep, things in order; I am careless; I forget… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“And again, as she intercepted his cup in passing, and would stir the sugar and put in the cream herself, 'I always… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“And if I had loved him less I should have thought his accent and look of exultation savage; but, sitting by him,… — Charlotte Brontë Happiness Copy Share Image
At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open… — Charlotte Bronte Heart Copy Share Image
![“I could not see how poor people had the means of being kind, and then to learn to speak like them, to adopt their manners, to be uneducated, to grow up like one of the poor women [...]: no, I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.” quote by Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24a/charlotte-bronte-144_caste_i-could-not-see-how-poor-people-had-the_2266560.jpg)
