827 Quotes by Charlotte Brontë

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children’s mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

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.

I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time – I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master – something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.

As far as my experience of matrimony goes – I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure – you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand – they only. Know this at last.

Little Jane’s love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.

Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before ‘the writing on the wall’ and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation.