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Jane Eyre QUOTES

Jane Eyre QUOTES

1 " I would always rather be happy than dignified. "

― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

2 " I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate. "

― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

3 " Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you! "

― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

4 " Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. "

― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

5 " I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me. "

― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

6 " All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever. "

― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

7 " I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame. "

― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

8 " It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. "

― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

9 " I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest - blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. I know no weariness of my Edward's society: he knows none of mine, any more than we each do the pulsation of the heart that beats in our separate bosoms; consequently, we are ever together. To be together is for us to be at once free as in solitude, as gay as in company. We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but more animated and an audible thinking. All my confidence is bestowed on him, all his confidence is devoted to me; we are precisely suited in character - perfect concord is the result. "

― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

10 " Most true is it that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer.' My master’s colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth, — all energy, decision, will, — were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me, — that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his. I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong! He made me love him without looking at me. "

― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

11 " Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. "

― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

12 " Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. "

― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

13 " [O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine. "

― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

14 " Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There is – I repeat it – a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them. "

― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

15 " We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence. "

― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

16 " 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 in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength. "

― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

17 " I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But go after him; he is now lingering in the passage expecting you - he will make it up.'

I have not much pride under such circumstances: I would always rather be happy than dignified; and I ran after him - he stood at the foot of the stairs. "

― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

18 " And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame. "

― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

19 " You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream "

― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

20 " Renewed hope followed renewed effort: It shone like the former for some weeks, then, like it, faded, flickered: Not a line, not a word reached me. When half a year wasted in vain expectancy, my hope died out, and then I felt dark indeed. "

― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre