We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

— Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë Quotes

I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.

— Charlotte Brontë

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.

— Charlotte Brontë

It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.

— Charlotte Brontë

Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd’s can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.

— Charlotte Brontë

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

— Charlotte Brontë

Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.

— Charlotte Brontë

Rochester: I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me.

— Charlotte Brontë

I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.

— Charlotte Brontë

I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

— Charlotte Brontë

His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.

— Charlotte Brontë

All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.

— Charlotte Brontë

Shake me off, then, sir – push me away; for I’ll not leave you of my own accord.

— Charlotte Brontë

For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.

— Charlotte Brontë
Reading

I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.

— Charlotte Brontë

Rochester: My bride is here, because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?

— Charlotte Brontë

Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.

— Charlotte Brontë

He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.

— Charlotte Brontë
Firsts

Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity had not yet found the key.

— Charlotte Brontë

The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes, – and to speak.

— Charlotte Brontë

Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.

— Charlotte Brontë
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