The quotations of

Charlotte Brontë

British novelist and poet

1816–1855

15 quotes, most often on Morality, Love and Freedom.

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
Jane Eyre (1847), Ch. 27In context
- Character
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.
Jane Eyre (1847), Jane to Mr. Rochester (Ch. 23)In context
- Freedom
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.
Jane Eyre (1847), Ch. 8 (Helen Burns)In context
- Morality
I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
15 January, 1849. As quoted in Elizabeth Gaskell The life of Charlotte Brontë (1870), p. 285
- Faith
- Hope
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
Jane Eyre, preface to the 2nd edition (21 December 1847)In context
- Morality
- Religion
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Jane Eyre (1847), Ch. 12In context
- Happiness
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.
Jane Eyre (1847), PrefaceIn context
- Morality
- Religion
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter IIn context
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.
Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter XIIIn context
- Freedom
- Women
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.
Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter XXIIIIn context
- Love
I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh;⁠—it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal,⁠—as we are!
Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter XXIIIIn context
- Love
I would always rather be happy than dignified
Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter XXXIVIn context
- Happiness
- Pride
Reader, I married him.
Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter XXXVIIIIn context
- Marriage
I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last
Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter VIIn context
- Forgiveness
God did not give me my life to throw away
Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter XXXVIn context
- Life & Death

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