Jane-eyre Quotes by Charlotte Bronte

“I am no bird, no net ensnares me.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“I am a free human being with an independent will." Jane Eyre”

— Charlotte Brontë

“Most things free-born will submit to anything for a salary.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“...his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“I had wakened the glow: his features beamed. 'Oh, you are indeed there, my sky-lark!”

— Charlotte Brontë

“Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something: trivial, transitory though the…

— Charlotte Brontë

Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to…

— Charlotte Bronte

“Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Well has Solomon said--'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.' I would not…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Yes Mrs Reed, to you i owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but i ought to forgive you, for you knew…

— Charlotte Brontë

“I know no medium: I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with positive, hard characters, antagonistic to…

— Charlotte Brontë

“You examine me, Miss Eyre", said he. "Do you think me handsome?" I should have deliberated, have replied to this question by…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Absolutely, sir! Oh, you need not be jealous! I wanted to tease you a little to make you less sad: I thought…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Diana announced that she would just give me time to get over the honey-moon, and then she would come and see me.…

— Charlotte Brontë

“He saw nature - he saw books through me; and never did I weary of gazing for his behalf, and of putting…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Unjust! - unjust!' said my reason, forced by the agonising stimulus into precocious though transitory power; and Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated…

— Charlotte Bronte

“To be together is for us to be at once free as in solitude, as gay as in company. We talk, I…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a seat apart from them, near the…

— Charlotte Brontë

“When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoughts and feelings, and endeavored…

— Charlotte Brontë

“I will, in few words. You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that is in…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Now, I've another errand for you,' said my untiring master; "you must away to my room again. What a mercy you are…

— Charlotte Brontë

“I recalled that inward sensation I had experienced: for I could recall it, with all its unspeakable strangeness. I recalled the voice…

— Charlotte Brontë

“As I exclaimed 'Jane! Jane! Jane!' a voice- I cannot tell whence the voice came, but I know whose voice it was-…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Most true is it that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer.' My master’s colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad…

— Charlotte Brontë

“And there is enchantment in the very hour I am now spending with you. Who can tell what a dark, dreary, hopeless…

— Charlotte Brontë

“The case is very plain before me. In leaving England, I should leave a loved but empty land — Mr. Rochester is…

— Charlotte Brontë

“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make…

— Charlotte Brontë