“Helen,' said she, after a thoughtful silence, 'do you ever think about marriage?' 'Yes, aunt, often.' 'And do you ever contemplate the… — Anne Brontë 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
A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him to death with her… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleasure of all… — Anne Brontë 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
“When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone - there are… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments — 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
“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
“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
