All Anne Bronte Quotes
- If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues. Betters
- I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach… Cease
- I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation. Company
- I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world. Any
- You need not fear me, for I not only should think it wrong to marry a man that was deficient in sense or in principle,… Able
- And why should he interest himself at all in my moral and intellectual capacities: what is it to him what I think and feel?' I… All
- You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay. Cannot Expect
- 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 of… Breadth
- Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless… Aimless
- Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation,… Acquainted
- What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self. Fool
- Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be. Brings
- To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day… Air
- There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted. Active
- It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe. Arm
- All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise: therefore, if you choose to use the bad,… All
- It seems as if life and hope must cease together. Cease
- Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never… Bear
- She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody… All
- There is always a ut in this imperfect world. Imperfect