“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
Because when she failed, I saw how she might have succeeded. Arrows that continually glanced off from Mr. Rochester's breast and fell… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“...his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Worn out with this torture of thought, I rose to my knees. Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
'My bride is here,' Rochester said , again drawing me to him, 'because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“You,” I said, “a favourite with Mr. Rochester? You gifted with the power of pleasing him? You of importance to him in… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“And there is enchantment in the very hour I am now spending with you. Who can tell what a dark, dreary, hopeless… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“I did. Mr. Rochester, reading my countenance, saw I had done so. His fury was wrought to the highest: he must yield… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“You are going, Jane?" "I am going, sir." "You are leaving me?" "Yes." "You will not come? You will not be my… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Mr. Rochester continued to be blind the first two years of our union; perhaps it was that circumstance that drew us so… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Yes: the future bridegroom, Mr. Rochester himself, exercised over his intended a ceaseless surveillance: and it was from this sagacity—this guardedness of… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“You examine me, Miss Eyre", said he. "Do you think me handsome?" I should have deliberated, have replied to this question by… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Now I have performed the part of a good host,” pursued Mr. Rochester, “put my guests into the way of amusing each… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Adele heard him, and asked if she was to go to school 'sans mademoiselle?' 'Yes,' he [Mr. Rochester] replied, 'absolutely sans mademoiselle;… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Leaving superiority out of the question, then, you might still agree to receive my orders now and then, without being piqued of… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“One morning I fell to sketching a face: what sort of a face it was to be, I did not care or… — 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 Brontë Copy Share Image
Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are… — Charlotte Bronte 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
