827 Quotes by Charlotte Brontë

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

In due time the tea was spread forth in handsome style; and neither ham, tart, nor marmalade was wanting among its accompaniments.

It is not violence that best overcomes hate — nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed….

Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! may your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonized as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.

I think it a glorious thing to have the hope of living with you, because I love you.