Chapter 29 Quotes — Jane Eyre

Not a tie links me to any living thing: not a claim do I possess to admittance under any roof in England.

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.

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.

You are mistaken in supposing me a beggar. I am no beggar; any more than yourself or your young ladies.

Rather an unusual physiognomy; certainly, not indicative of vulgarity or degradation.

He was young—perhaps from twenty-eight to thirty—tall, slender; his face riveted the eye; it was like a Greek face, very pure in outline: quite a straight, classic nose; quite an Athenian mouth and chin.

The want of house or brass (by which I suppose you mean money) does not make a beggar in your sense of the word.

I lay on it motionless as a stone; and to have torn me from it would have been almost to kill me.

I am an orphan, the daughter of a clergyman. My parents died before I could know them. I was brought up a dependent; educated in a charitable institution.

Strange hardships, I imagine—poor, emaciated, pallid wanderer!