Jane Eyre / Quotes

Quote #1

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Quote #2

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Quote #3

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.”
― Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Quote #4

“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
― Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Quote #5

“Reader, I married him.”
― Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Quote #6

“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.”
― Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Quote #7

“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
― Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Quote #8

“I do not 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.”
― Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Quote #9

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Quote #10