| 100% | EYRE | 4 | Jane who says "I would always rather be happy than dignified" |
| 97% | EYRE | 4 | Fictional Jane who said "I would always rather be happy than dignified" |
| 82% | EYRE | 4 | Titular narrator who says, “I would always rather be happy than dignified” |
| 69% | EYRE | 4 | Jane of fiction who would “always rather be happy than dignified” |
| 65% | EYREQUOTES | 10 | "Reader, I married him," "I would always rather be happy than dignified," etc.? |
| 50% | EMMA | 4 | Title heroine who says "I would much rather have been merry than wise" |
| 46% | EYRE | 4 | Jane who says "I am a free human being with an independent will" |
| 45% | EYRE | 4 | Literary Jane who says "No net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will" |
| 41% | EYRE | 4 | Fictional Jane who said "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me" |
| 39% | WHITNEY | 7 | Houston who sang I Will Always Love You |
| 39% | AHAB | 4 | Fictional character who says "I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer" |
| 38% | CAIN | 4 | Biblical person who says "My punishment is greater than I can bear" |
| 38% | ALI | 3 | Boxer who said, "The will must be stronger than the skill" |
| 38% | ABE | 3 | Simpson who said: "Grass today is sharper than when I was a boy" |
| 37% | FRODO | 5 | Fictional character who says "I will take the ring, though I do not know the way" |
| 37% | SPARROW | 7 | I'd rather be a __ than a snail, yes I would |
| 36% | MORRISON | 8 | Nobel laureate who said "If I tried to write a universal novel it would be water" |
| 35% | EYRE | 4 | Jane who said, "Reader, I married him" |
| 35% | IAGO | 4 | Literary character who says "I will wear my heart upon my sleeve" |
| 35% | TEDLASSO | 8 | TV coach who said, “I think I literally have a better understanding of who killed Kennedy than I do what is offside” |
| 35% | JAKE | 4 | ___ Peralta of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" who said "Amy Santiago will you marry me?" at the end of a Halloween heist |
| 34% | OBAMA | 5 | Who said "Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues" |
| 34% | ZERO | 4 | "If you multiply me by any number, the answer will always remain the same. Who am I?" |
| 34% | AHAB | 4 | Literary captain who says, "I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing" |
| 34% | ILLNESS | 7 | I will get head cold, say |
| 34% | CATO | 4 | Roman who said "After I'm dead I'd rather people ask why I have no monument than why I have one" |
| 33% | MRT | 3 | TV personality who once said in an ad, "The only thing bolder than Fuze Iced Tea is ME!" |
| 33% | ONE | 3 | What I will always be? |
| 33% | NINTH | 5 | What I will always be? |
| 33% | CATO | 4 | Statesman who said, "After I'm dead, I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one" |