Mr. Rochester Quotes

• 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
  • Breast
  • Arrows
  • Harmless

• 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
  • Expect
  • Celestial
  • Mr. 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
  • Fate
  • Mr. Rochester
  • Assign

• 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
  • Great
  • Kindness
  • Mr. Rochester