“ Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state Charlotte Bronte
“ Besides, I seemed to hold two lives—the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished with a sufficiency of the strange necromantic joys of fancy, the privileges of the… Charlotte Bronte
“ Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time as aromatic wine it seemed on swallowing warm and racy its after-flavor metallic and corroding gave me a sensation as if I had been poisone… Charlotte Bronte
“ You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world. Charlotte Bronte
“ You are going, Jane?I am going, sir.You are leaving me?Yes.You will not come? You will not be my comforter, my rescuer? My deep love, my wild woe, my frantic prayer, are all nothing to you?What unutte… Charlotte Bronte
“ Yes Mrs Reed, to you i owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but i ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did while rendering my heart strings, you thought you were only uprooting your… Charlotte Bronte
“ Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. -… Charlotte Bronte
“ While I looked, my inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose; I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly lived, were at last about to taste life. In that morning… Charlotte Bronte
“ What have you been doing during my absence?''Nothing particular; teaching Adele as usual.''And getting a good deal paler than you were - as I saw at first sight. What is the matter?''Nothing at all, s… Charlotte Bronte
“ We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their si… Charlotte Bronte
“ To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility,… Charlotte Bronte
“ There is one in this tribe too often miserable - a child bereaved of both parents. None cares for this child: she is fed sometimes, but oftener forgotten: a hut rarely receives her: the hollow tree an… Charlotte Bronte
“ There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of temper, &c., evident enough, beside wh… Charlotte Bronte
“ That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar. Charlotte Bronte
“ Rochester: My bride is here, because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me? Charlotte Bronte
“ 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 budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?Jane: You are n… Charlotte Bronte
“ Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present. Charlotte Bronte
“ Picture me then idle, basking, plump, and happy, stretched on a cushioned deck, warmed with constant sunshine, rocked by breezes indolently soft. Charlotte Bronte
