Jane Eyre (1943)

Henry Daniell: Henry Brocklehurst

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• Dr. Rivers : You keep your schoolroom uncommonly cold, Mr. Brocklehurst.

  Henry Brocklehurst : A matter of principle, Dr. Rivers. Our aim is not to pamper the body but strengthen the soul.

  Dr. Rivers : I should not have thought that a bad cough was any aid to salvation, but then I'm not a theologian. Good day, sir.

• Henry Brocklehurst : Do you know where the wicked go after death?

  Jane Eyre as a Child : They go to Hell.

  Henry Brocklehurst : And what is Hell?

  Jane Eyre as a Child : A pit full of fire.

  Henry Brocklehurst : And should you like to fall into that pit and be burning there forever?

  Jane Eyre as a Child : No, sir.

  Henry Brocklehurst : Then what must you do to avoid it?

  Jane Eyre as a Child : I must keep in good heaIth and not die.

• Mrs. Reed : You see, Mr. Brockelehurst, how passionate and wicked she is.

  Henry Brocklehurst : I do, indeed. Come here, child. You and I must have some talk. No sight so sad as that of a wicked child.

• Henry Brocklehurst : Now I must pray God to take away your heart of stone and make you meek and humble and penitent.

• Henry Brocklehurst : Pupils! Observe this child. She is yet young. She possesses the ordinary form of girlhood. No single deformity points her out as a marked character. Who would believe that the evil one had already found in her a servant and an agent? Yet such, I grieve to tell you, is the case. Therefore, you must be on your guard against her. Shun her example, avoid her company, exclude her from your sports, and shut her out from your converse. Teachers! You must watch her, weigh well her words, and scrutinize her actions. Punish her body to save her soul. For it is my duty to warn you, and my tongue faIters as l tell it, that this girl, this child, the native of a Christian land, no better than many a little heathen that said its prayers to Brahma and kneels before Jagannath. This girl is a liar!

• Henry Brocklehurst : Silence! So this is the spirit that prevails at Lowood. First vanity, and now insurrection. It shall be rooted out.

• Henry Brocklehurst : Why, in defiance of every precept and principle of this establishment, is this young person permitted to wear her hair in one massive curls?

  Mrs. Scatcherd : Her hair curls naturally, sir.

  Henry Brocklehurst : Mrs Scatcherd, how often must I tell you, we are not here to conform to nature?

• Henry Brocklehurst : The ways of Providence are inscrutable.

• Mrs. Scatcherd : If I may venture an opinion, Sir.

  Henry Brocklehurst : When I want your opinion, Madame, I shall call for it.

• Jane Eyre : I do not wish to stay at Lowood.

  Henry Brocklehurst : But this is unheard of! The ingratitude.

  Jane Eyre : What have I to be grateful for? Ten years of harshness and...

  Henry Brocklehurst : Silence! Stiff-necked as ever.

• Henry Brocklehurst : You have no talents, your disposition is dark and rebellious, your appearance insignificant.