Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte Quotes

#1. Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most influential book. But, under an interrogation light I would probably have to say 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#2. Strange energy was in his voice, strange fire in his look.

Charlotte Bronte

#3. No; you shall tear yourself away, none shall help you: you shall yourself pluck out your right eye; yourself cut off your right hand: your heart shall be the victim, and you the priest to transfix it.

Charlotte Bronte

#4. In the name of all the elves in Christendom, is that Jane Eyre?

Charlotte Bronte

#5. 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

#6. His presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.

Charlotte Bronte

#7. Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

Charlotte Bronte

#8. 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

Charlotte Bronte

#9. I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

Charlotte Bronte

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

Charlotte Bronte

#11. 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 lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.

Charlotte Bronte

#12. Jane Eyre
I desired more ... than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

Charlotte Bronte

#13. I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express.
- Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte

#14. The horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white.

Charlotte Bronte

#15. St John Rivers: What will you do with all your fine accomplishments? Jane Eyre: I will save them until they're wanted. They will keep.

Charlotte Bronte

#16. I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.

Charlotte Bronte

#17. Yes Mrs Reed, to you i owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but i ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did while rendering my heart strings, you thought you were only uprooting your bad propensities.

Charlotte Bronte

#18. Good-night, my- He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

Charlotte Bronte

#19. Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

Charlotte Bronte

#20. I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.

Charlotte Bronte

#21. Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Charlotte Bronte

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. I am a free human being with an independent will.
Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Charlotte Bronte

#32. 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

#33. You transfix me quite.

Charlotte Bronte

#34. I am no bird, no net ensnares me.

Charlotte Bronte