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;… — Anne Bronte 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“Keep a guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlet, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness. Receive, coldly and dispassionately, every attention, till you have ascertained and duly considered the worth of the aspirant; and let your affections be consequent upon approbation alone. First study; then… — 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 Image
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 Image
“Sullen silence was taken for rapt attention, and gave him greater room to talk; sharp answers were received as smart sallies of girlish vivacity, that only required an indulgent rebuke; and flat contradictions were but as oil to the flames, calling forth new strains of argument to support his dogmas, and bringing down upon me endless floods of reasoning to… — 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 Image
I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of. — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
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