Bronte Quotes Quotes

“If she were more perfect she would be less interesting”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“Women read men more truly than men read women. I’ll prove that in a magazine paper some day when I have time; only it will never be inserted. It will be ‘declined with thanks,’ and left for me at the publisher’s.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“Charlotte Bronte borrowed liberally and sloppily from Joseph Sheridan le Fanu when penning Jane Eyre. The originality of this classic novel is tarnished as a result.”
― Andrew Barger, The Best Ghost Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Ghost Anthology

“Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children’s brains, but strangely impressive.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre