I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman. — Charlotte Bronte Books Copy Share Image
“Well said, forehead; your declaration shall be respected.” — Charlotte Brontë Declaration Copy Share Image
“Lucy, take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.” — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed. — Charlotte Bronte Disappointed Copy Share Image
“This notice has been written, because I felt it a sacred duty to wipe the dust off their gravestones, and leave their… — Charlotte Brontë Gravestones Copy Share Image
“I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.… — Charlotte Brontë Honour Copy Share Image
“All that surrounds him hastens to decay; all declines and degenerates under his sceptre. Your god is a masked Death.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make… — Charlotte Bronte Action Copy Share Image
I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion. — Charlotte Bronte Companion Copy Share Image
“I heard the gallop of a horse at a distance on the road; I was sure it was you; and you were… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare, I do not love you:” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Her beauty, her pink cheeks, and golden curls, seemed to give delight to all who looked at her and to purchase indemnity… — Charlotte Brontë Beauty Copy Share Image
Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Thus for the first, and perhaps only time in my life, I enjoyed the “giftie” of seeing myself as others see me.… — Charlotte Brontë Life Copy Share Image
“I am willing to amuse you, if I can, sir—quite willing; but I cannot introduce a topic, because how do I know… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [… — Charlotte Bronte Agony Copy Share Image
It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how… — Charlotte Bronte Analysis Copy Share Image
My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a… — Charlotte Bronte Agony Copy Share Image
“Much I marvelled at the sagacity evinced by waiters and chamber-maids in proportioning the accommodation to the guest. How could inn-servants and… — Charlotte Brontë Class Copy Share Image
“Yes," he replied, "absolutely sans mademoiselle; for I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave… — Charlotte Brontë Morning and night Copy Share Image
“These were vile discoveries; but except for the treachery of concealment, I should have made them no subject of reproach to my… — Charlotte Brontë Betrayal Copy Share Image
“Worn out with this torture of thought, I rose to my knees. Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe,… — Charlotte Brontë Comforting Copy Share Image
It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or hear in her… — Charlotte Brontë Beauty Copy Share Image
Because when she failed, I saw how she might have succeeded. Arrows that continually glanced off from Mr. Rochester's breast and fell… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Meantime, let me ask myself one question--Which is better?--To have surrendered to temptation; listened to passion; made no painful effort--no struggle;--but to… — Charlotte Brontë Love Copy Share Image
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