English Jane Eyre Older Quotes

“I admitted myself…”

to duty and order: I was quiet

“it will be my duty…”

to develop these germs

“what they approved…”

I reverenced

“what they enjoyed…”

I delighted

“I sometimes wished to have rosy cheeks,…”

a straight nose and small cherry mouth

“I desired to be…”

tall, stately and finely developed in figure

“I was too little…”

so pale and had features so irregular

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little…”

I am soulless and heartless?

“if God had gifted me with…”

some beauty and much wealth

“her purple riding habit…”

almost swept the ground

“shone rich…”

raven ringlets

“whether it at all resembled the…”

fancy miniature I had painted of her

“her laugh was…”

satirical

“sallow face and…”

severe mien

“elongated and…”

colourless visage

“very plump…”

damsel

“as stylish as the other’s…”

looked puritanical

“a stone pillar set up…”

where four roads meet

“waves of mountains far beyond that…”

deep valley at my feet

“I heard…”

a church bell

“a starving…”

dog

“I was a human being and had…”

a human being’s wants

“a curious laugh; distinct…”

formal, mirthless

“Bluebeard’s…”

castle

“demoniac…”

laugh

“a snarling, snatching sound…”

almost like a dog

“she sucked the blood: she said…”

she’d drain my heart

“dark, grizzled hair, wild…”

as a mane

“the clothed…”

hyena rose up

“it is not in mortal discretion…”

to fathom her craft

“it was like a Greek…”

face, very pure in outline

“so near the antique…”

models

“did not appear to enjoy that mental serenity…”

which should be the reward of every sincere Christian

“it was peturbed and exciting…”

in the frequent flash and changeful dilation of his eye

“form clad in…”

pure white

“youthful,…”

graceful form

“no defect…”

was perceptible

“brought on…”

a stroke

“were quite breaking…”

her down

“a dozen at…”

least in our day

“their incompetency…”

and caprice

“her heart barren by nature…”

nothing bloomed spontaneously on that soil

“the child clung round…”

my neck in terror

“almost…”

strangled me

“I hushed the scared…”

infant in my lap

“my heart is…” (Jane to St. John)

mute

“hand would tremble…” (effect of Rosamond on St. John)

and his eye burn

“I fell under…” (effect of St.John on Jane)

a freezing spell

“ever more absolutely bone of his bone…” (end of book)

and flesh of his flesh

“I dragged my…”(Jane in wilderness)

exhausted limbs

“living flesh shuddered…”

at its chilling influence

“Reader…”

I married him

“I wish he would continue…”

to neglect me

“all the men in her circle…”

seemed to admire her and ignore me