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Anne Brontë QUOTES

Anne Brontë QUOTES

1 " I cannot love a man who cannot protect me. "

― Anne Brontë

2 " What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed. "

― Anne Brontë

3 " All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. "

― Anne Brontë , Agnes Grey

4 " I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it. "

― Anne Brontë , The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Volume I

5 " But, God knows best, I concluded. "

― Anne Brontë , Agnes Grey

6 " What business had I to think of one that never thought of me? "

― Anne Brontë , Agnes Grey

7 " But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they chance to fall upon the tinder of our wishes; then, they instantly ignite, and the flame of hope is kindled in a moment. "

― Anne Brontë , Agnes Grey

8 " But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind. "

― Anne Brontë , The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

9 " We often pity the poor, because they have no leisure to mourn their departed relatives, and necessity obliges them to labor through their severest afflictions: but is not active employment the best remedy for overwhelming sorrow--the surest antidote for despair? It may be a rough comforter: it may seem hard to be harassed with the cares of life when we have no relish for its enjoyments; to be goaded to labor when the heart is ready to break, and the vexed spirit implores for rest only to weep in silence: but is not labor better than the rest we covet? and are not those petty, tormenting cares less hurtful than a continual brooding over the great affliction that oppresses us? Besides, we cannot have cares, and anxieties, and toil, without hope--if it be but the hope of fulfilling our joyless task, accomplishing some needful project, or escaping some further annoyance. "

― Anne Brontë , Agnes Grey

10 " He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. To be near him, to hear him talk as he did talk, and to feel that he thought me worthy to be so spoken to - capable of understanding and duly appreciating such discourse - was enough. "

― Anne Brontë , Agnes Grey

11 " It was wrong to be so joyless, so desponding; I should have made God my friend, and to do His will the pleasure and the business of my life; but faith was weak, and passion was too strong. "

― Anne Brontë

12 " I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man. "

― Anne Brontë , The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

13 " Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. "

― Anne Brontë , The Bronte Sisters - The Complete Novels + Extras

14 " The next visit I paid to Nancy Brown was in the second week in March: for, though I had many spare minutes during the day, I seldom could look upon an hour as entirely my own; since, when everything was left to the caprices of Miss Matilda and her sister, there could be no order or regularity. Whatever occupation I chose, when not actually busied about them or their concerns, I had, as it were, to keep my loins girded, my shoes on my feet, and my staff in my hand; for not to be immediately forthcoming when called for, was regarded as a grave and inexcusable offence: not only by my pupils and their mother, but by the very servant, who came in breathless haste to call me, exclaiming 'You're to go to the school-room directly, mum- the young ladies is WAITING!!' Climax of horror! actually waiting for their governess!!! "

― Anne Brontë , Agnes Grey

15 " Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. "

― Anne Brontë , Agnes Grey

16 " 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. "

― Anne Brontë , Agnes Grey

17 " I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation. "

― Anne Brontë , The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

18 " Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and then you feel them too; and perhaps resent the injury by crushing them in till you have destroyed their power, though somewhat to the detriment of your own fingers. "

― Anne Brontë , The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

19 " Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation, or too little acquainted with vice, or anything connected therewith – It must be, either, that you think she is essentially so vicious, or so feeble-minded that she cannot withstand temptation, - and though she may be pure and innocent as long as she is kept in ignorance and restraint, yet, being destitute of real virtue, to teach her how to sin is at once to make her a sinner... "

― Anne Brontë , The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

20 " This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of them could bear: the cold rain of winter has sufficed to nourish it, and its faint sun to warm it; the bleak winds have not blanched it, or broken its stem, and the keen frost has not blighted it. Look, Gilbert, it is still fresh and blooming as a flower can be, with the cold snow even now on its petals. "

― Anne Brontë