I was a human being, and had a human being's wants: I must not linger where there was nothing to supply them.
Charlotte BrontëFriends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
Charlotte BrontëI did what human beings do instinctively when they are driven to utter extremity — looked for aid to one higher than man: the words "God help me!" burst involuntarily from my lips.
Charlotte BrontëHiring a mistress is the next worse thing to buying a slave: both are often by nature, and always by position, inferior
Charlotte BrontëIt is my way — it always was my way, by instinct — ever to meet the brief with brevity, the direct with plainness.
Charlotte BrontëI can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
Charlotte BrontëTags: crime
Some have won a wild delight,
By daring wilder sorrow;
Could I gain thy love to-night,
I'd hazard death to-morrow.
Tags: love poetry bravery risk daring
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.
Charlotte BrontëTags: soul mind eyes interpretation
All is not gold that glitters
Charlotte BrontëMy sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of a sullen hollow in a livid hillside her mind could make an Eden. She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights; and not the least and best-loved was – liberty.
Charlotte BrontëTags: emily-bronte
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