Jane Eyre Quotations

Quotation showing the redness of the red room

“the carpet was red; the table at the foot of the bed was covered with a crimson cloth; the walls were a soft fawn colour with a blush of pink in it”

Quotation showing how the red room was appeared to be a prison

“no jail was ever more secure” - connotations to a prison emphasises how Jane is trapped by society, limiting her freedom due to her gender and class

Quotation showing what Mrs Reed is too Jane

“Dart retalliation to my antagonist”

Quotation showing how Jane is excited shouting at Mrs Reed

“Shaking head to toe with ungovernable excitement”

Quotation showing how Jane was mistreated at Gateshead and her attitude towards the familly

“Thrust me back - roughly and violently thrust me back”

“You are like a murderer - you are like a slave driver - you are like the Roman emperor”

Quotation showing the kindness of Miss Temple

“Miss Temple is full of goodness”

Quotation showing the forgiving nature of Helen

“Love your enemies; bless them that curse you”

Quotation showing the obedience of Helen

“Obeyed the monitor without reply as without delay”

Quotation showing why Helen is like this

“The Bible bids us return good for evil”

Another quotation to show this

“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”

Quotation further showing how Mrs Temple was very supportive and kind

“Encouraging us, by precept and example to keep our spirits up and march forward”

“Don’t be afraid Jane. I saw it was an accident; you shall not be punished”

Quotation showing the unkind, malicious nature of Mr Brocklehurst

“that girls hair must be cut off entirely”

Quotation showing how Helen helps deepen Jane’s faith in Christianity

“Read the New Testament, and observe what Christ says, and how He acts; make his word your rule, and his conduct your example”

Quotation showing the love Jane had to Helen Burns once she died

“Dont leave me, Jane; I like to have you near me”

“She kissed me, and I her, and we both soon slumbered”

Quotation showing the motherlike nature of Miss Temple when Jane is reflecting on her time at Lowood?

“She had stood me in the stead of mother”

“to her instruction I owed the best part of my acquirements”

“I had imbibed from her something of her nature and much of her habits”

Quotation for Mr Rochester expressing his love to Jane when previously keeping it a secret?

“I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you - especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if i had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame”

Quotation showing Mrs Reed keeping the secret of Jane’s uncle

“I disliked you to fixedly and thoroughly ever to lend a hand in lifting you to prosperity”

Quotation showing what Jane’s uncle wanted to do

He wishes “to adopt her during my life”

She may have had a father figure - live a more luxurious life not being looked down upon due to her gender or class at previous locations

Quotation showing Mr Briggs revealing the secret of Bertha Mason

“Mr Rochester has a wife now living”

Quotation showing how Jane leaves him because of this revealment

“Their is neither room not claim for me, sir”

“Mr Rochester I will not be yours”

Quotation about the chest nut tree

“The trunk, split down the centre, gasped ghastly. The cloven halves were not broken from each other, for the firm base and strong roots kept them unsundered below”

Quotation showing the compassion of Diana

“Famished, I think. Hannah, is that milk? Give it to me, and a piece of bread”

Quotation showing the compassion of Mary

“A little more, St John - look at the avidity in her eyes”

Quotation showing St Johns peculiar approach to love

“You are formed for labour not for love (…) You shall be mine: I claim you - not for my pleasure, but for my Sovereign’s service”

Quotation showing how Jane and married were united in the end

“Reader I married him”

“I am so glad to be near you again”

“My living darling! There are certainly her limbs”