Lisa Berndl: The course of our lives can be changed by such little things. So many passing by, each intent on his own problems. So many faces that one might easily have been lost. I know now that nothing happens by chance. Every moment is measured; every step is counted.


--Joan Fontaine (as ) in Letter from an Unknown Woman

Mavis Norman: Does it make any difference, having an aim in life?


--Joan Fontaine (as ) in Island in the Sun

Prudence Cathaway: [referring to Britain's involvement in the War] It's too late to doubt or question. We're in it now, and we've got to go on!


--Joan Fontaine (as ) in This Above All

Prudence Cathaway: [to Aunt Iris] When you and Uncle Wilfred talk, I seem to hear words oozing from the holes of a moth eaten sofa.


--Joan Fontaine (as ) in This Above All

[first lines]
Jane Eyre: [narrating] My name is Jane Eyre... I was born in 1820, a harsh time of change in England. Money and position seemed all that mattered. Charity was a cold and disagreeable word. Religion too often wore a mask of bigotry and cruelty. There was no proper place for the poor or the unfortunate. I had no father or mother, brother or sister. As a child I lived with my aunt, Mrs. Reed of Gateshead Hall. I do not remember that she ever spoke one kind word to me.


--Joan Fontaine (as Jane Eyre) in Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre: [narrating] As the months went past, he came to see the light once more as well as to feel its warmth; to see first the glory of the sun, and then the mild splendour of the moon, and at last the evening star. And then one day, when our firstborn was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes as they once were... large, brilliant and black.


--Joan Fontaine (as Jane Eyre) in Jane Eyre

Mrs. de Winter: Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.


--Joan Fontaine (as Mrs. de Winter) in Rebecca