“Mr. Rochester : Your gaze is very direct, Miss Eyre. Do you think me handsome? Jane Eyre: No, sir.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman — almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoughts and feelings, and endeavoured… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night--… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.'… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“St John Rivers: What will you do with all your fine accomplishments? Jane Eyre: I will save them until they're wanted. They… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express."… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“As I exclaimed 'Jane! Jane! Jane!' a voice- I cannot tell whence the voice came, but I know whose voice it was-… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Listen, then, Jane Eyre, to your sentence: tomorrow, place the glass before you, and draw in chalk your own picture, faithfully, without… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“A preface to the first edition of “Jane Eyre” being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Jane Eyre "I desired more...than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life, that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Having thus acknowledged what I owe those who have aided and approved me, I turn to another class; a small one, so… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I will attire my Jane in satin and lace, and she shall have roses in her hair and I will cover the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“A deal of people, Miss, are for trusting all to Providence; but I say Providence will not dispense with the means, though He often… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great single cloud… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“How dare I, Mrs Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were -… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Not one spark of spirit, not one symptom of resistance, would they have shown till the hand of the Corsican bandit had grasped that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image