Jane Eyre Quotes

I think (with deference be it spoken) the contrast could not be much greater between a sleek gander and a fierce falcon: between a meek sheep and the rough-coated keen-eyed dog, its guardian.

If you knew it, you are peculiarly situated: very near happiness; yes, within reach of it. The materials are all prepared; there only wants a movement to combine them. Chance laid them somewhat apart; let them be once approached and bliss results.

"Well, Jane, do you know me?" asked the familiar voice.

"There, then—'Off, ye lendings!'" And Mr. Rochester stepped out of his disguise.

I was going back to Thornfield: but how long was I to stay there? Not long; of that I was sure.

I grieve to leave Thornfield: I love Thornfield:—I love it, because I have lived in it a full and delightful life,—momentarily at least. I have not been trampled on. I have not been petrified. I have not been buried with inferior minds, and excluded from every glimpse of communion with what is bright and energetic and high.

"Soon to be Jane Rochester," he added: "in four weeks, Janet; not a day more. Do you hear that?"

Don't address me as if I were a beauty; I am your plain, Quakerish governess.

You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all: you are a mere dream.

I shut the closet to conceal the strange, wraith-like apparel it contained; which, at this evening hour—nine o'clock—gave out certainly a most ghostly shimmer through the shadow of my apartment. "I will leave you by yourself, white dream," I said. "I am feverish: I hear the wind blowing: I will go out of doors and feel it."