827 Quotes by Charlotte Brontë

I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.

When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.

Alas! never had I loved him so well!

I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen: that I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach.

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you

Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.

It is always the way of events in this life,...no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired.