Jane Eyre Quotes

Quote about Jane's Childhood

‘a strange child she could not love […] and uncongenial alien,’ - Chapter 2

Quote about Wealth

‘I would not like to belong to poor people’ - Jane CONTRASTS WITH ‘It seemed I had found a brother; one I could be proud of—one I could love’ - Chapter 3 and 33

Quote about Bitterness and Vengance

(talking about Reed shutting her in the red room) ‘so cruel i think i shall never forget about it’ CONTRASTS WITH somethinf Seof vengeance……………..i had been poisoned - Chapter 3 and 4

Quote about Aunt Reed

‘I will never call you aunt again as long as I live’ CONTRASTS WITH ‘kiss me, aunt!’ - Chapter 4 and 22

Quote about Saying Goodbye

‘ “Love me, then, or hate me, as you will,” I said at last’ - Chapter 21

Quote about Youth

‘But what is so headstrong as youth?’ - Chapter 22

Quote about Seeing Rochester

(when J sees R blind for the first time) ‘I had no difficulty in restraining my voice from exclamation,’ - Chapter 37

Quote about Home

‘My home, then […], is a cottage.’CONTRASTS WITH ‘Wherever you are is my home, my only home’ - Chapter 31 and 22

Quote from Chapter 1

‘Was I fit to die?’

Quote from Chapter 12

‘There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures’ and also she would ‘have the bone of her arm broken, or let a bull toss (her), or stand behind a kicking horse’ for the love of others - contrasts with how she grows to be content with the love of herself.

Quote from Chapter 27

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

Quote from Chapter 24

‘I am not an angel. And I will not be one until I die - I will be myself’

Quote from Chapter 27

‘I have an inward treasure born in me’

Quote from Chapter 14

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have’

Quote about Self-Perception

“The strange little figure there gazing at me” – Jane Eyre, Chapter 2

Quote about Identity

“I saw a robed and veiled figure, so unlike my usual self that it seemed almost the image of a stranger” – Jane Eyre, Chapter 26

Quote from an Unknown Chapter

Wherever you are is my home. My only home’ - This is bad. Janet does not have her own home and identity. All she has is

Quote about acquaintance

‘my acquaintance with him was confined’ - Chapter 14

Quote about freedom

‘I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.’ - Chapter 23

Quote about love

(rochester after j says yes) ‘enclosing me in his arms.’ - Chapter 23

Quote about Georgiana

‘Georgiana…interweaving her hair with artificial flowers’

Quote about Inner Worth

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

Quote about Inner Turmoil

“Reader, though I look very comfortably accommodated, I am not very tranquil in my mind”

Quote from Chapter 17 about Appearance

‘Fluttering veils and waving plumes’ - veils also has marriage vibes suggesting that they’re using their looks/beauty to try to get married rather than having a brain. Also avion imagery with the plumes xxx

Quote from Chapter 17 about Adele

‘ “What beautiful ladies” cried she in English” ‘, Adele, this is the first time she speaks in Anglaise

Quote from Chapter 17 about Mrs. Colonel Dent

‘Mrs Colonel Dent was less showy, but I thought, more ladylike’

Quote about Independence

“I am independent sir, as well as rich: I am my own mistress.”

Quote about Poverty and Christianity

‘If you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.’ (J to incest boi)

Quote about Wealth and Poverty (Early)

‘I would not like to belong to poor people’ - Chapter 3 (showing early concerns about wealth)

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Quote about Faith

‘You must pray for God to take away your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh’ - Chapter 4

Quote about Helen Burns

‘Helen Burns considered things by a light invisible to the human eye’ - Chapter 6

Quote about a peaceful life

‘I live in calm, looking to the end’ - Chapter 6

Quote about conforming

‘We are not to conform to nature’ - Chapter 7

Quote about St. John

“Firm, faithful, and devoted: full of energy, and zeal, and truth, he labours for his race’ - Chapter 38 (about St J)

Quote about St. John's marital status

‘St J is unmarried: he never will marry now.’ - Chapter 38

Quote about Revenge

“Revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low” - Chapter 6