"Jane Eyre" Quotes

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!

I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

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.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

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.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

You have no business to take our books; you are a dependent, mama says; you have no money; your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not to live here with gentlemen's children like us, and eat the same meals we do, and wear clothes at our mama's expense.

I am not a machine without feelings.