Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte


Here are a few famous quotations from the novel:
  • "It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
    - Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

  • "If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."
    - Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

  • "A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway."
    - Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

  • "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."
    - Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

  • "Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."
    - Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

  • "So much has religion done for me; turning the original materials to the best account; pruning and training nature. But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated 'till this mortal shall put on immortality."
    - Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

  • "Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."
    - Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

  • "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
    - Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Note to self: I've seen the movie adaptation starring Zelah Clarke, Timothy Dalton, Sian Pattenden, et al. Next time, watch the version starring William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Joan Plowright, et al.