Quotes by Charlotte Brontë
5 quotes by Charlotte Brontë (died 1855), taken from Jane Eyre. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Jane Eyre
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“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.”
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“I would always rather be happy than dignified”
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“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
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“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.”
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“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”