Quotes from Charlotte Bronte

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.

I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.

Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad.

I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?

I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto.

That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.

But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.

Prodigious was the amount of life I lived that morning.

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

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.

Look twice before you leap.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Who has words at the right moment?

Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.

After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.

Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.

He made me love him without looking at me.

Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.

I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.