TRUTH in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 I could comprehend the feeling, and share both its strength and truth.
2 A fresh wrong did these words inflict: the worse, because they touched on the truth.
3 People talk of natural sympathies; I have heard of good genii: there are grains of truth in the wildest fable.
4 St. John was a good man; but I began to feel he had spoken truth of himself when he said he was hard and cold.
5 She advocated a high tone of sentiment; but she did not know the sensations of sympathy and pity; tenderness and truth were not in her.
6 I would not ascribe vice to him; I would not say he had betrayed me; but the attribute of stainless truth was gone from his idea, and from his presence I must go: that I perceived well.
7 Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy, and zeal, and truth, he labours for his race; he clears their painful way to improvement; he hews down like a giant the prejudices of creed and caste that encumber it.
8 Violent as he had seemed in his despair, he, in truth, loved me far too well and too tenderly to constitute himself my tyrant: he would have given me half his fortune, without demanding so much as a kiss in return, rather than I should have flung myself friendless on the wide world.
9 To speak truth, I had not the least wish to go into company, for in company I was very rarely noticed; and if Bessie had but been kind and companionable, I should have deemed it a treat to spend the evenings quietly with her, instead of passing them under the formidable eye of Mrs. Reed, in a room full of ladies and gentlemen.