All Charlotte Bronte Quotes
- 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:… Asserting
- Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss Ingram? None: and… Accept
- 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… Combined
- Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules. Circumstances
- He made me love him without looking at me. Funny
- But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who… Affection
- Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may… All
- Your will shall decide your destiny. Decide
- It is a long way off, sir" "From what Jane?" "From England and from Thornfield: and ___" "Well?" "From you, sir England
- I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy… Any
- I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve… All
- I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. Blowing
- For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial. Childish
- Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord. Accord
- 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… Breath
- I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here. Cannot Lie
- I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive… Bars
- Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to… Been
- What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me? Delusion
- But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself? Afterwards
- Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened… Abandoned
- I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Angel
- I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense. Grave
- I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations. Crowded
- I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express." - Jane Eyre Express