827 Quotes by Charlotte Brontë

Make my happiness – I will make yours.

I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.

I ask you to pass through life at my side – to be my second self, and best earthly companion.

I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it’s expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it’s perils.

You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme – and when you so give yourself – you lose appetite ans sleep – it cannot be helped –.

If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage – I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced – true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

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

My love has placed her little hand With noble faith in mine, And vowed that wedlock’s sacred band Our nature shall entwine. My love has sworn, with sealing kiss, With me to live – to die; I have at last my nameless bliss: As I love – loved am I!