Charlotte Brontë

More from Charlotte Brontë

• 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

All 15 quotes from Charlotte Brontë

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