To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“Now I am a wife: my bliss is sobered, but not destroyed; my hopes diminished, but not departed; my fears increased, but… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Yet, should thy darkest fears be true, If Heaven be so severe, That such a soul as thine is lost, Oh! how… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harassed by sorrows… — 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 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