A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life. — Charlotte Bronte Depressing Copy Share Image
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. — Charlotte Bronte Animosity Copy Share Image
“I enjoyed that day, though we travelled slowly, though it was cold, though it rained.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things.” — Charlotte Brontë Gender roles Copy Share Image
Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Women are supposed to be calm generally: but women feel just as men feel...” — Charlotte Brontë Feminism Copy Share Image
“...his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“that I have wakened out of most glorious dreams, and found them all void and vain, is a horror I could bear… — Charlotte Brontë Dreams Copy Share Image
“Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman — almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was… — Charlotte Brontë Heart Copy Share Image
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. — Charlotte Bronte Adoration Copy Share Image
“To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned? Why could I never please? Why was it useless to… — Charlotte Brontë Suffering Copy Share Image
“Some have won a wild delight, By daring wilder sorrow; Could I gain thy love to-night, I'd hazard death to-morrow.” — Charlotte Brontë Bravery Copy Share Image
“With animals I feel I am Adam's son; the heir of him to whom dominion was given over "every living thing that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“It was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.” — Charlotte Brontë Peace Copy Share Image
I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid,… — Charlotte Bronte 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 Bronte Copy Share Image
“It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it… — Charlotte Brontë Peace Copy Share Image
I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.… — Charlotte Bronte Alive Copy Share Image
“I know she re-entered her prison with pain, with reluctance, with a moan and a long shiver. The divorced mates, Spirit and… — Charlotte Brontë Prison Copy Share Image
“And what is hell? Can you tell me that?” “A pit full of fire.” “And should you like to fall into that… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
But I tell you--and mark my words--you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of… — Charlotte Bronte Atoms Copy Share Image
“(But) I learned in time that this benignity, this cordiality, this music, belonged in no shape to me: it was a part… — Charlotte Brontë Cordiality Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I returned to my book—Bewick’s History of British Birds: the letterpress thereof I cared little for, generally speaking; and yet there were… — Charlotte Brontë History Copy Share Image
“There was I, then, mounted aloft; I, who had said I could not bear the shame of standing on my natural feet… — Charlotte Brontë Nature Copy Share Image
“But I affirm that you are: so much depressed that a few more words would bring tears to your eyes-indeed, they are… — Charlotte Brontë Depressed Copy Share Image
“I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures, as… — Charlotte Brontë Change Copy Share Image
I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the… — Charlotte Bronte Adventure Copy Share Image
“There is one in this tribe too often miserable - a child bereaved of both parents. None cares for this child: she… — Charlotte Brontë Children Copy Share Image
