rochi ⋆ > rochi ⋆'s Quotes

“Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world except John Reed; and this book about the liar, you may give to your girl, Georgiana, for it is she who tells lies, and not I.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I am glad you are no relation of mine: I will never call you aunt again as long as I live. I will never come to see you when I am grown up; and if any one asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you treated me with miserable cruelty.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I will tell anybody who asks me questions, this exact tale. People think you a good woman, but you are bad, hard-hearted. You are deceitful!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should – so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It is not violence that best overcomes hate – nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“No; I know I should think well of myself; but that is not enough; if others don’t love me, I would rather die than live – I cannot bear to be solitary and hated, Helen. Look here; to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken, or to let a bull toss me, or to stand behind a kicking horse, and lit it dash its hoof at my chest.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“A beauty neither of fine colour, nor long eyelash, nor penciled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Are you going somewhere, Helen? Are you going home?
Yes; to my long home – my last home.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“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 about. We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I believe; I have faith: I am going to God.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Miss Temple, through all changes, had thus far continued superintendent of the seminary; to her instruction I owed the best art of my acquirements; her friendship and society had been my continual solace; she had stood me in the stead of mother, governess, and latterly, companion.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“From the day she left I was no longer the same: with her was gone every settled feeling, every association that had made Lowood in some degree a home to me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“it is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Women are supposed to be very calm generally; but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I don’t think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“You are human and fallible.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“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 is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“And was Mr. Rochester now ugly in my eyes? No, reader: gratitude, and many associations, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object I best liked to see; his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“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…strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing. People talk of natural sympathies; I have heard of good genii: there are grains of truth in the wildest fable. My cherished preserver, good-night!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It does good to no woman to be flattered by her superior 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

“Most true is it that "beauty is in the eye of the gazer.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre