“In all we do, and hear, and see, Is restless Toil and Vanity. While yet the rolling earth abides, Men come and… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other;… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“It is in your power to secure this inestimable blessing for life—a worthy and excellent husband, who loves you tenderly, but not… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“It was wrong to be so joyless, so desponding; I should have made God my friend, and to do His will the… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than you can… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“Oh, Youth may listen patiently, While sad Experience tells her tale, But Doubt sits smiling in his eye, For ardent Hope will… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“If a woman is fair and amiable, she is praised for both qualities, but especially the former, by the bulk of mankind:… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and I trembled lest my very moral perceptions… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many,… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“how shall I get through the months or years of my future life, in company with that man -- my greatest enemy… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“There is another life both for you and for me,’ said I. ‘If it be the will of God that we should… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the… — Anne Brontë Copy Share
“When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen… — Anne Brontë Copy Share
“There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be useful to… — Anne Brontë Copy Share
“By his [God's] help I will arise and address myself diligently to my appointed duty. If happiness in this world is not for me,… — Anne Brontë Copy Share
There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth… — Anne Brontë Copy Share
“Keep a guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlet, lest they betray… — Anne Brontë Copy Share
What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed. — Anne Bronte Copy Share
I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the… — Anne Bronte Copy Share
“Sullen silence was taken for rapt attention, and gave him greater room to talk; sharp answers were received as smart sallies of girlish vivacity,… — Anne Brontë Copy Share
“Revenge! No—what good would that do?—it would make him no better, and me no happier.” — Anne Brontë Copy Share
I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of. — Anne Bronte Copy Share
“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… — Anne Brontë Copy Share
How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own! — Anne Bronte Copy Share
