Mr. Rochester

"I would rather suffer any hardship than part with you."

"To me, Jane, you are everything: my hope, my honour, my world."

"You did right to come back to me."

"Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed."

"I am a plain man, but I say what I mean."

"I have no pleasure in the world more than you."

"The charm of life is in its variety."

"The heart is a strange instrument."

"I would rather be a slave to a kind master than to own slaves"

"The world may think me a good man; but I am a castaway"

"I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the face of creation"

"I am a harsh, rigid man, but I wish to be a better one"

"My hopes were all centred in you"

"I am better when I am turbulent than when I am stagnant"

"Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own"

"I despise weakness, but I cannot despise you"

"The more I know myself, the less I like myself"

"My dreams have all been sacrificed"

"I would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk's whole seraglio."

"You are diverting me from serious work by all this badinage."

"Pride has always been my enemy."

"The past cannot be changed, only accepted."

"I would not exchange this one little English girl for all the houris of the GrandSeignior's seraglio."

"You have nothing to fear from me."

"I have crossed oceans of time to find you."

"What a wretched muddle things seem!"

"I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you."

"She has a fine head; and above all, she is tractable and clever."

"I have thought of you during the whole of a sleepless night."

"Rules and systems are all very well for society, but we cannot live by them."