“You examine me, Miss Eyre,” said he. “Do you think me handsome?”
I should have deliberated, have replied to this question by something conventionally vague and polite; but the answer somehow slipped from my tongue before I was aware: “No, sir.”
– Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre, Chapter 14. Mr. Rochester gets flirtatious with Jane here, asking if she thinks him handsome. When Jane defiantly and cheekily says “no,” she is speaking the truth as Rochester is not classically handsome. But she is also showing that she is a woman with an independent mind who speaks honestly and refuses to flatter him.