Top 100 Eyre's Quotes
#1. Reread that Bronte book all you want, but Jane Eyre's never going to get gender-reassignment surgery or train to become a kick-ass ninja assassin.
Chuck Palahniuk
#2. I think I learned discipline on 'Jane Eyre.' Charlotte Bronte's dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre's character, is so compelling that you didn't have to do much with the placement of cameras.
Cary Fukunaga
#3. Pudge," she said, faux-condescending, "the sound is an integral part of the artistic experience of this video game. Muting Decapitation would be like reading only every other word of Jane Eyre.
John Green
#4. There is no practice more vexing than that of authors describing coach travel for the edification of people who have already travelled in coaches. As I must adhere to form, however, I will simply list a series of phrases for the unlikely reader who has never gone anywhere:
Lyndsay Faye
#5. I take up my make-up with Garnier's Micellar and then exfoliate with a Kiehl's exfoliating cream.
Ella Eyre
#6. I don't see life without a musical career. I really enjoy doing what I do.
Ella Eyre
#7. I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.'
- Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
#8. My grandfather had a proper bookcase of egghead books, and he gave them to me in alphabetical order. So we moved from Aeschylus to the Brontas, and I can still remember the great relief of going from the dipus cycle to Jane Eyre.
Jill Paton Walsh
#9. Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. - Helen Burns
Charlotte Bronte
#10. When you are small, if you reach out, and nobody takes your hand, you stop reaching out, and reach inside, instead.
Amanda Eyre Ward
#11. Any heroine worth reading about will one day find herself on the moors of a devastating personal crisis. For the most part, we must traverse them alone.
Chapter 10 Steadfastness Jane Eyre
Erin Blakemore
#12. It's so nice to be inspired by so many females - particularly the girls around me like Jess Glynne, Becky Hill, Sinead Harnett, Foxes - we all have similarities, but we're all very different, and I think it's nice that people are respecting that and noticing and enjoying us all equally.
Ella Eyre
#13. Though I no longer presumed to have a conscience, I have never once lacked feelings.
Lyndsay Faye
#14. I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.
Richard Eyre
#15. Well, what did he want?"
"Merely to tell you that your uncle, Mr. Eyre of Madeira, is dead; that he has left you all his property, and that you are now rich
merely that
nothing more.
Charlotte Bronte
#16. My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something: trivial, transitory though the deed was, it was yet an active thing, and I was weary of an existence all passive.
Charlotte Bronte
#17. Like the locked room upstairs? Listen. I've read Jane Eyre. That better be a red room of pain up there, and not your ex-wife.
Kristan Higgins
#18. Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.
Richard Eyre
#19. Jane Eyre may be an orphan, homely, battered, alone and abandoned, but she is not, never has been and never will be a big fat sausage.
Fanny Britt
#20. We can alleviate physical pain, but mental pain - grief, despair, depression, dementia - is less accessible to treatment. It's connected to who we are - our personality, our character, our soul, if you like.
Richard Eyre
#21. I am a free human being with an independent will.
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
#22. A preface to the first edition of "Jane Eyre" being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark.
Charlotte Bronte
#23. Courtship? Had I said courtship? What did I think, that this was Jane freakin' Eyre?
Terri Farley
#24. I was very lucky. I left college, and Richard Eyre was in charge of the National Theatre. I was offered the lead in 'The Seagull' with no experience and went on to do five plays there.
Helen McCrory
#26. 'Jane Eyre' was one of those films that I was familiar with as a kid, and I always enjoyed the story.
Cary Fukunaga
#27. I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.
Richard Eyre
#28. Theatre is castigated for wallowing in self-indulgence, but it's curiously unsentimental. You simply have to move on. Everything passes. Something in me likes that.
Richard Eyre
#29. I have a worm's eye view and a bird's eye view simultaneously and it's immensely helpful to understand what is happening on the shop floor when you are harnessing many talents and telling an intimate story on a large scale.
Richard Eyre
#30. My mum's a bouncy, energetic, driven, crazy woman, and my dad's very relaxed, doesn't say much. I have the best of both worlds in my personality.
Ella Eyre
#31. I love sushi. Once on Valentine's Day, someone I was dating rocked up at the airport to pick me up with a bag of salmon because I love it so much.
Ella Eyre
#32. I'm never comfortable at theatre opening nights. If it's my own production I'm too wound up to be able to enjoy the performance and too wary to enjoy the event as a social occasion.
Richard Eyre
#33. We are entitled to personal revelation, especially when it concerns our own or our children's lives and what has been foreordained for them. This is true whether our children number one or ten, and whether the Lord sends them to us through natural means or adoption. This is a glorious knowledge.
Richard M. Eyre
#34. I choose you and I would choose you all over again. As Jane Eyre said of her Mr. Rochester, "I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blessed - blessed beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine."1
Jen Hatmaker
#35. Always keep wiping your face with towels when you work out because I find that the more I exercise, that's when I have my breakouts. You've got to keep the sweat off because the pores are open when you're hot and can get clogged.
Ella Eyre
#36. A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.
Richard Eyre
#37. Death is the worst kind of thief. It takes whatever soul it chooses, and then out of sheer spite or mean-spiritedness strips the humanity from the shell it leaves behind so that it's impossible to believe life ever dwelt within something so
Eyre Price
#38. There's a lot less time in the day when you're in a relationship.
Ella Eyre
#39. Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children's brains, but strangely impressive.
Charlotte Bronte
#40. Art is about the 'I' in life not the 'we', about private life rather than public. A public life that doesn't acknowledge the private is a life not worth having.
Richard Eyre
#41. I'm wary of artistic directors who say, 'Here is my vision', because it's empirical. Basically it's about who you work with and what plays you put on; the vision comes out of that.
Richard Eyre
#42. I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women, a lot of girls, it's the iconic story and so many girls relate to Jane Eyre and her character.
Sally Hawkins
#43. It's not all 'Jane Eyre' out there. In her sweet, honorable, slightly passive-aggressive way, Jane was as perfect as a protagonist can get while remaining interesting; in fact, she's one of my favorites. But most characters are more morally ambiguous.
Susan Isaacs
#44. I learned a lot from Rudimental's live set. It's all about good feelings, good vibes and a good time, and that's what I want from my shows. I like big, bolshy performances, like Beyonce. I can't dance like her, though.
Ella Eyre
#45. I think for us up-and-coming artists, once you're out there, once you've put stuff up, once people know who you are, once you discover who you are, we're all in the same boat: it's down to whether people appreciate the music or not.
Ella Eyre
#46. also, i wanted to kiss you, said lola.
come here, said emmett.
Amanda Eyre Ward
#47. I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.
Charlotte Bronte
#48. Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Charlotte Bronte
#49. I'm inclined to think that, because it's such an awful life, that politicians do go into it for the best reasons. I mean, some may love the sound of their own voice. But it's such a wearying life, you've got to be impelled by some desire to leave the world a better place than when you came into it.
Richard Eyre
#50. My mum is very driven and has always kept me busy ... She used to say to me, 'Nobody likes a teenager. So use your teenage years to work. Then enjoy your life when you're slightly older.'
Ella Eyre
#51. Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman - almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was pale; her prospects were desolate.
Charlotte Bronte
#52. The dowager rose and slipped from her pew. There was the sound of tearing silk as she threw up her arms to embrace her son. Then:
"Oh, Rupert, darling," she exclaimed in tones of theatrical despair, "don't you see? The game's up!
Eva Ibbotson
#53. I always have Giorgio Armani's Luminous Silk Foundation, Bobbi Brown's Jenna lipstick, and my Estee Lauder Double Wear Concealer.
Ella Eyre
#54. Maybe that's what love is, in the end: a shared illusion of safety.
Amanda Eyre Ward
#55. My background was always more soulful pop. I was named after Ella Fitzgerald, and when I was a kid, I was listening to Lauryn Hill, Etta James, Joss Stone. For me, it was always about the voice.
Ella Eyre
#56. [O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.
Charlotte Bronte
#57. I don't wash my hair very often. Once a week if I can. Because the more you wash it, you end up stripping out the natural oils. What I like to do is just rinse out the products that I've used during the week and then put leave-in conditioner in and let it dry naturally.
Ella Eyre
#58. and sure enough, emmett's voice rose above the din. at some point, though, a mistake becomes a decision, whether you like it or not. in this, my husband and i were fundamentally different. in my opinion, a mistake required a getaway.
Amanda Eyre Ward
#60. Every action has a consequence, so always try to be good.
Richard Eyre
#61. I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.
Richard Eyre
#62. No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day.
Charlotte Bronte
#63. Matt is a tortured soul,' Amanda insisted. 'He's Heathcliff and you're Cathy. He's Rochester and you're Jane Eyre. He's-'
'Darcy and I'm Elizabeth. I get it. And you're wrong.
Robin Brande
#64. Ah, but you're the insidious type
Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.
Dodie Smith
#65. I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways.
Richard Eyre
#69. 'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially when you have a good professor.
Edward P. Jones
#70. 'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.
Richard Eyre
#71. What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel
Francine Prose
#72. I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.'
'Station! Station!
your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you, now or hereafter.
Charlotte Bronte
#73. Most risks we might not take if we could see what we would have to go through to reach our goal. Yet, we would never not take most risks if we knew the great learning experience and soul enrichment they would bring.
Linda Eyre
#75. 'Sin Nombre' was almost like the adolescent version of 'Jane Eyre.' 'Jane Eyre' sort of picks up where 'Sin Nombre' ends. It's about this girl who starts off on her own at her lowest point of despair, and she figures out how she got there.
Cary Fukunaga
#76. The desire to share is not a vague, windy sentiment, not when you see the massive rise in live concerts in response to the phenomenon of downloading music ... People want to get rid of the headphones and be part of a shared experience.
Richard Eyre
#77. Charlotte Bronte borrowed liberally and sloppily from Joseph Sheridan le Fanu when penning Jane Eyre. The originality of this classic novel is tarnished as a result.
Andrew Barger
#78. Waiters are like actors waiting in the wings, bantering whenever we passed each other on the restaurant floor, shouting at each other backstage in the kitchen and winking and corpsing above the heads of our audience, the unsuspecting customers.
Richard Eyre
#79. as she walked back to her husband, lola thought about lying on her expensive sheets and holding a baby - their baby - to her breast. to the baby, lola would smell like a mother, and the ridiculous chandelier would look like stars.
Amanda Eyre Ward
#80. It's a small world. No matter what the circumstances, be nice to everyone, as you never know who you're going to see again.
Ella Eyre
#81. I would love to do a sweeping romantic period drama, like Jane Eyre. That would be my dream. It's always been my dream, as far as acting.
Chloe Sevigny
#83. Yes, but I doubt Jane Eyre is explicit about irrational fucking.' 'Ah, so you believe my only source of information is a Bildungsroman from the nineteenth century about an orphan girl who marries a gigantic arse.
Charlotte Stein
#84. Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.
David Nicholls
#85. Parenting, when it is pursued seriously and thoughtfully, is not only life's most important career, but its most joyful and fulfilling career.
Linda Eyre
#86. I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.
Richard Eyre
#87. Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations.
Charlotte Bronte
#88. Of course I recognized it. How could I not, for I had read it goodness knows how many times. 'Jane Eyre,' I said wonderingly.
'You recognized it? Yes, it is. I asked a man in a library. It's by Charlotte someone. She had a lot of sisters, apparently.
Diane Setterfield
#89. My hairstylist uses the Bumble & Bumble hairspray, which is the best smelling hairspray there is!
Ella Eyre
#90. Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.
Richard Eyre
#91. What we hold in our heads - our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history - is the sum of our humanity.
Richard Eyre
#92. I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.
Mallory Ortberg
#93. When I was a teenager, I used to love the Bronte books, 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre.' In those books, the women do usually manage to heal the men, but in life, I've found it's often the woman gets wounded. Instead of healing a man, she gets affected by his cruelty.
Jocelyn Moorhouse
#94. There is no creature more singular or dangerous than the educated woman.
Rachael Eyre
#95. I went to boarding school in Somerset and loved it so much that my teachers had to make me phone home when I first got there. Whenever I spoke to my mum, at the end of the call I would say, 'Love you, Mum', and she would say, 'Love you the most.'
Ella Eyre
#96. I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics.
Tippi Hedren
#97. With 'Sin Nombre,' there are parts that I wish were longer. And with 'Jane Eyre' especially, there were parts that I had to compress that I thought it would have been really nice to spend more time with - to spend with the characters.
Cary Fukunaga
#98. There are those who leave without our needing to detain them; we have said all there is to say.
Richard Eyre
#99. I like Aveda shampoo. I've used it since I was a swimmer.
Ella Eyre
#100. Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it.
Richard Eyre
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