Anne Bronte

But, God knows best, I concluded.

— Anne Bronte

Life and hope must cease together.

— Anne Bronte

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

— Anne Bronte

“Matrimony is a serious thing.”

— Anne Brontë

Adoration isn't love.

— Anne Bronte

There is perfect love in heaven!

— Anne Bronte

Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!

— Anne Bronte

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.

— Anne Bronte

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

— Anne Bronte

Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship

— Anne Bronte

Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.

— Anne Bronte

God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.

— Anne Bronte

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

— Anne Bronte

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

— Anne Bronte

“And if I,' said she, 'am young in years, I am old in sorrow;”

— Anne Brontë

I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought…

— Anne Bronte

“That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!"…

— Anne Brontë

Yet, should thy darkest fears be true, If Heaven be so severe, That such a soul as thine is lost, Oh! how…

— Anne Bronte

“I’m not going to defile my fingers with him,’ said I, in answer to the maternal intercession. ‘I wouldn’t touch him with…

— Anne Brontë

I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless…

— Anne Bronte

My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as…

— Anne Bronte

“The more happiness we bestow, the more we shall receive, even here; and the greater will be our reward in heaven when…

— Anne Brontë

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

— Anne Bronte

“Whatever was wrong, in either her or her brother, he would encourage by laughing at, if not by actually praising: people little…

— Anne Brontë

“My object in writing the following pages, was not simply to amuse the Reader, neither was it to gratify my own taste,…

— Anne Brontë

“I would not send a poor girl into the world, unarmed against her foes, and ignorant of the snares that beset her…

— Anne Brontë

“If you would have your son to walk honorably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his…

— Anne Bronte

And then, the unspeakable purity - and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the…

— Anne Bronte

“Let your eyes be blind to all external attractions, your ears deaf to all the fascinations of flattery and light discourse.—These are…

— Anne Brontë

“What the world stigmatises as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the generous…

— Anne Brontë

“Minden igaz történetnek van valami tanulsága, ámbár némelyikben nehéz meglelni e kincset, s ha megleljük is, gyakran oly csekélynek bizonyul, hogy a…

— Anne Brontë

“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity,…

— Anne Brontë

“I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil…

— Anne Brontë

“It is foolish to wish for beauty.  Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others.  If…

— Anne Brontë

The bud, though plucked, would not be withered, only transplanted to a fitter soil to ripen and blow beneath a brighter sun;…

— Anne Bronte

You need not fear me, for I not only should think it wrong to marry a man that was deficient in sense…

— Anne Bronte

“It is not, indeed, to be supposed that you would wish to marry any one till you were asked: a girl's affections…

— Anne Brontë

“Lehet, hogy nyomorultul érezné magát az otthona nélkül, de élni akkor is tudna maga is; és nem is érezné magát olyan nyomorultul,…

— Anne Brontë

I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.…

— Anne Bronte

No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.

— Anne Bronte