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- “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre.
- “I would always rather be happy than dignified.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre.
- “Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup?
- “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre.
41 of the best book quotes from Jane Eyre. 01. “I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing. Charlotte Bronte. author. Jane Eyre. book. smiling. ᐧ.
She recounts her strong work ethic, growth, and accomplishments, but then reveals that she is growing restless and ready to explore the world. Jane exhibits her adventurous and courageous spirit once again as she seeks freedom from the Lowood school life.
Jane declares that she will “tell anybody who asks me questions this exact tale”—via authorship, Jane asserts her authority over and against her tyrannical aunt. Explanation of the famous quotes in Jane Eyre, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.
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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.” “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 consider poverty a crime.”
“Do you think I am an automaton?–a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? 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 gift...
“I would always rather be happy than dignified.” “There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.” “’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–f...
Most true it is that ‘beauty is in the eye of the gazer.’” “A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor penciled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.”
“Icare for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” “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 offe...
“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?” “Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not re...
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.” “Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.” “Oh! That gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!” “I remembered that the real world was wide, and t...
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.” –Helen Burns “If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.” –Helen Burns “It is not violence that best overcomes hate–nor vengeance that most certainly h...
“I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy.” –Jane to Rochester “’Am I hideous, Jane?’ ‘Very, sir: you always were, you know.’”
“Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear. 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 inf...
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