827 Quotes by Charlotte Brontë

It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or bemoaning the mortifications, of feelings.

I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last

My feelings towards it can only be paralleled by that of a doting parent towards an idiot child.

And after all, authors' heroines are almost as good as authoress's heroes.

I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester

A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away-away-to an indefinite distance-it died. The nightingale's song was then the only voice of the hour: in listening to it, I again wept.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.

When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart.

No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by.