“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and… — Charlotte Brontë Equality Copy Share Image
“By degrees, he acquired a certain influence over me that took away my liberty of mind: his praise and notice were more… — Charlotte Brontë Dependence Copy Share Image
“Some lives are thus blessed: it is God's will: it is the attesting trace and lingering evidence of Eden. Other lives run… — Charlotte Brontë Blessed Copy Share Image
But where are you going to, Helen? Can you see? Do you know?-I believe; I have faith: I am going to God.-Where… — Charlotte Bronte 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
“Having thus acknowledged what I owe those who have aided and approved me, I turn to another class; a small one, so… — Charlotte Brontë Nature 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
“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
“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
“And your will shall decide your destiny," he said: "I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of all my… — Charlotte Brontë Fate Copy Share Image
“Have you heard from his lordship lately?” I asked. “Oh no! About six months ago I had indeed one little note, but… — Charlotte Brontë Charlotte-bronte Copy Share Image
“I know that a stranger's hand will write to me next, to say that the good and faithful servant has been called… — Charlotte Brontë Death Copy Share Image
“I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature, despair. I think that on a… — Charlotte Brontë Despair Copy Share Image
The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied… — Charlotte Bronte Anathema Copy Share Image
“Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a seat apart from them, near the… — Charlotte Brontë Art Copy Share Image
“...you think too much of the love of human beings; you are too impulsive, too vehement: the sovereign hand that created your… — Charlotte Brontë 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 Brontë Nature Copy Share Image
“Come, Paul!" she reiterated, her eye grazing me with its hard ray like a steel stylet. She pushed against her kinsman. I… — Charlotte Brontë Emmanuel Copy Share Image
All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the… — Charlotte Brontë Genius Copy Share Image
“My task was not an easy one; often I would rather have pleased than teased him. My future husband was becoming to… — Charlotte Brontë Future husband Copy Share Image
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night--… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“All men, taken singly, are more or less selfish; and taken in bodies, they are intensely so. The British merchant is no… — Charlotte Brontë Making money Copy Share Image
No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at… — Charlotte Bronte Blunders Copy Share Image
I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed… — Charlotte Bronte Apples Copy Share Image
“He is not to them what he is to me,' I thought: 'he is not of their kind. I believe he is… — Charlotte Brontë Love Copy Share Image
“I really did not expect any Grace to answer, for the laugh was as tragic, as preternatural a laugh as any I… — Charlotte Brontë Fear Copy Share Image
“To speak truth, sir, I don't understand you at all: I cannot keep up the conversation, because it has got out of… — Charlotte Brontë Communication Copy Share Image
“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great… — Charlotte Brontë Charlotte-bronte Copy Share Image
“It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: but… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking about; you… — Charlotte Brontë Disgust Copy Share Image
“I believe — I daily find it proved — that we can get nothing in this world worth keeping, not so much… — Charlotte Brontë Civil war Copy Share Image
“You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You… — Charlotte Brontë Jealousy Copy Share Image
“The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upwards, take an interest, believe to… — Charlotte Brontë Books 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 Copy Share Image
