“And if that illustration will not move you, here is another: -- We are children now; we feel as children, and we… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and… — 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
“I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
The bud, though plucked, would not be withered, only transplanted to a fitter soil to ripen and blow beneath a brighter sun;… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“In love afairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child - ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“Whatever was wrong, in either her or her brother, he would encourage by laughing at, if not by actually praising: people little… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“But supposing I could be so generous as to take delight in this, stil it is only a child; and I can't… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they… — 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… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
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,… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“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