Mr Rochester Quotes:

'My bride is here,' Rochester said , again drawing me to him, 'because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?'

- Charlotte Bronte

source: "Jane Eyre".

topic: Will You Marry Me, Rochester, Equal, Mr Rochester

I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

topic: Eye, Romance, Way, Mr Rochester, Rochester

I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

topic: Girl, Memories, Envy, Mr Rochester, Contamination

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

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.150, Penguin

topic: Good Night, Lips, Left, Mr Rochester

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

- Charlotte Bronte

topic: Love, Integrity, Women, Mr Rochester, Rochester

I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

topic: Heart, Eye, Expression, Mr Rochester

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

topic: Integrity, Angel, Gender, Mr Rochester

To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break... I am ever tender and true.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.213, Penguin

topic: Character, Eye, Fire, Mr Rochester, Flatness

To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts — when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break — at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent — I am ever tender and true. (Mr Rochester to Jane)

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.213, Penguin

topic: Eye, Heart, Character, Mr Rochester, Rochester

Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer — if ever I wished a righteous wish — I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: "Jane Eyre: Enhanced with an Excerpt from The Madwoman Upstairs".

topic: Prayer, Sacrifice, Expectations, Mr Rochester, Privileged

Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.202, Penguin

topic: Kindness, Home, Rochester, Mr Rochester

I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester

- Charlotte Bronte

topic: Hands, Answers, Rochester, Mr Rochester

I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night. I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to meet his eye.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.128, Penguin

topic: Eye, Night, Voice, Sleepless Nights, Mr Rochester

I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his orders. "The smile is very well," said he, catching instantly the passing expression; "but speak too." "I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to inquire whether or not their paid subordinates were piqued and hurt by their orders.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.184, Harper Collins

topic: Hurt, Thinking, Expression, Mr Rochester, Rochester

Because when she failed, I saw how she might have succeeded. Arrows that continually glanced off from Mr. Rochester's breast and fell harmless at his feet, might, I knew, if shot by a surer hand, have quivered keen in his proud heart - have called love into his stern eye, and softness into his sardonic face, or better still, without weapons a silent conquest might have been won.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte (2014). “Jane Eyre: Englische Originalausgabe”, p.199, Edition Lempertz

topic: Heart, Eye, Hands, Mr Rochester, Rochester

Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.258, Penguin

topic: Fate, Forget You, Strive, Mr Rochester, Rochester

Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre, Tessa pointed out. No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out of her wits. Is that what you want?

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.522, Simon and Schuster

topic: Girl, Want, Poor, Mr Rochester, Rochester

The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above all, the splash of the shower-bath I had liberally bestowed, roused Mr Rochester at last though it was dark, I knew he was awake; because I heard him fulminating strange anathemas at finding himself lying in a pool of water. 'Is there a flood?' he cried

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.125, Penguin

topic: Lying, Dark, Hands, Mr Rochester, Rochester

I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary blunder-how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr. Rochester's movements a matter in which I had any cause to take vital interest.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.136, Penguin

topic: Disappointment, Mistake, Order, Mr Rochester, Rochester