Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means. — Charlotte Bronte Integrity Copy Share Image
I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. — Charlotte Bronte Angel Copy Share Image
Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal. — Charlotte Bronte Ashamed Copy Share Image
The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted. — Charlotte Bronte Divine Copy Share Image
“This pure little drop from a pure little source was too sweet: it penetrated deep, and subdued the heart” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say… — Charlotte Bronte Bears Copy Share Image
“I am paving hell with energy... I am laying down good intentions which I believe durable as flint.” — Charlotte Brontë Energy Copy Share Image
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Some say there is enjoyment in looking back to painful experience past; but at this day I can scarcely bear to review… — Charlotte Brontë Recollection Copy Share Image
“Well, my insane inconsistency had its reward. Instead of the comfort, the certain satisfaction, I might have won - could I but… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest… — Charlotte Bronte Earth Copy Share Image
“My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something: trivial, transitory though the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasureits hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Under an unsophisticated culture, inartificial tastes, and an unpretending outside, lay a secret power and fire that might have informed the brain… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited… — Charlotte Bronte Enterprise Copy Share Image
Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through… — Charlotte Bronte Blessing Copy Share Image
“These struggles with the natural character, the strong native bent of the heart, may seem futile and fruitless, but in the end… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I dare say he thinks he has outwitted me cleverly. And this is the way men deal with women — still concealing… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“The next day commenced as before, getting up and dressing by rushlight; but this morning we were obliged to dispense with the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Absolutely, sir! Oh, you need not be jealous! I wanted to tease you a little to make you less sad: I thought… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“No; I know I should think well of myself; but that is not enough: if others don't love me I would rather… — Charlotte Brontë Love Copy Share Image
“Now, I've another errand for you,' said my untiring master; "you must away to my room again. What a mercy you are… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I recalled that inward sensation I had experienced: for I could recall it, with all its unspeakable strangeness. I recalled the voice… — Charlotte Brontë Charlotte-bronte Copy Share Image
