The best Jane Eyre quotes

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.

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

Reader, I married him.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow-creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

A beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor penciled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance.

Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

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

I do not think, sir, you have a right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.