Anne Brontë Quotes
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
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.
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.
My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.
If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.
I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.
What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.
I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.
If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.
I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.
When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.
She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.
I gave up hoping...But, still, I would think of him, I would cherish his image in my mind, and treasure every word, look and gesture that memory could retain.
Never! while heaven spares my reason, ’ replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.
I love the silent hour of night, For blissful dreams may then arise, Revealing to my charmed sightWhat may not bless my waking eyes.
A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, headmired in others, but he could not acquire it himself.
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.
If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do.
. . . I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.
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 see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.
And so you prefer her faults to other people’s perfections?
. . . you have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!
He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him.
Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.
How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!
When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone - there are many, many other things to be considered.
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.
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?
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
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.
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.