Anne Bronte Quotes
Top 99 wise famous quotes and sayings by Anne Bronte
Anne Bronte Famous Quotes & Sayings
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My nature was not originally calm,' said I. 'I have learned to appear so by dint of hard lessons and many repeated efforts.
Severed and gone, so many years!
And art thou still so dear to me,
That throbbing heart and burning tears
Can witness how I cling to thee?
And art thou still so dear to me,
That throbbing heart and burning tears
Can witness how I cling to thee?
It's well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you may not find your confidence misplaced.
In all we do, and hear, and see,
Is restless Toil and Vanity.
While yet the rolling earth abides,
Men come and go like ocean tides
Is restless Toil and Vanity.
While yet the rolling earth abides,
Men come and go like ocean tides
Never! while heaven spares my reason,' replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.
It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.
What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.
Yet, should thy darkest fears be true, If Heaven be so severe, That such a soul as thine is lost, Oh! how shall I appear?
That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, and felt that it was true.
Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.
Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.
A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, he
admired in others, but he could not acquire it himself.
admired in others, but he could not acquire it himself.
I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.
You'll find a man can live without his money as merrily as a tortoise without its head, or a wasp without its body." '"But
She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will.
The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.
Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.
I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.
One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.
I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.
God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensual darkness from his eyes, but I could not.
I'll tell you a piece of news
I hope you have not heard it before: for good, bad, or indifferent, one always likes to be the first to tell.
I hope you have not heard it before: for good, bad, or indifferent, one always likes to be the first to tell.
She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.
If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do.
It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them.
Well, let them seize on all they can;
One treasure still is mine,
A heart that loves to think on thee,
And feels the worth of thine.
One treasure still is mine,
A heart that loves to think on thee,
And feels the worth of thine.
[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.
It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever - bless them, dear creatures!
It is never too late to reform, as long as you have the sense to desire it, and the strength to execute your purpose.
Long have I dwelt forgotten here
In pining woe and dull despair;
This place of solitude and gloom
Must be my dungeon and my tomb.
In pining woe and dull despair;
This place of solitude and gloom
Must be my dungeon and my tomb.
Of him to whom less is given, less will be required, but our utmost exertions are required of us all.
I'm not going to defile my fingers with him,' said I, in answer to the maternal intercession. 'I wouldn't touch him with the tongs.' I
The more happiness we bestow, the more we shall receive, even here; and the greater will be our reward in heaven when we rest from our labours.
if I can gain the public ear at all, I would rather whisper a few wholesome truths therein than much soft nonsense