“ I used to rush into strange dreams at night: dreams many-coloured, agitated, full of the ideal, the stirring, the stormy--dreams where, amidst unusual scenes, charged with adventure, with agitating ri… Charlotte Bronte
“ I know no medium: I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with positive, hard characters, antagonistic to my own, between absolute submission and determined revolt. I have always faith… Charlotte Bronte
“ I knew, he continued, you would do me good in some way, at some time;—I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not—(again he stopped)—did not (he proceeded hastily… Charlotte Bronte
“ I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor co… Charlotte Bronte
“ How dare I, Mrs Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity. Charlotte Bronte
“ Don’t talk to me about her, John: I told you not to go near her; she isnot worthy of notice; I do not choose that either you or your sistersshould associate with her.Here, leaning over the banister, I… Charlotte Bronte
“ Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. Charlotte Bronte
“ There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can never be rightly known, we take pleasure, I think, in being consummately ig… Charlotte Bronte
“ Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe in the silence and solitude of the spot, and allow my mind's eye to dwell on whatever bright vision… Charlotte Bronte
“ Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime. Charlotte Bronte
“ One morning at the end of the two years, as I was writing a letter to his dictation, he came and bent over me, and said--Jane, have you a glittering ornament round your neck? I had a gold watch-chain:… Charlotte Bronte
“ Jane: St John dresses well. He is a handsome man: tall, fair, with blue eyes and a Grecian profile.Rochester:(Aside) Damn him! (To me) Did you like him, Jane? Charlotte Bronte
“ It is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel… Charlotte Bronte
“ If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. Charlotte Bronte
“ I scorn your idea of love,' I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning my back against the rock. 'I scorn the counterfeit sentiment you offer: yes, St. John, and I scorn you w… Charlotte Bronte
“ I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give. Charlotte Bronte
“ I do not want sacrifice, sorrow, dissolution -- such is not my taste. I wish to foster, not to blight -- to earn gratitude, not to wring tears of blood -- no, nor of brine: my harvest must be in smile… Charlotte Bronte
