Anne Bronte

“You prefer her faults to other people’s perfection.”

— Anne Brontë

“Now I am a wife: my bliss is sobered, but not destroyed; my hopes diminished, but not departed; my fears increased, but…

— Anne Brontë

“My nature was not originally calm,' said I. 'I have learned to appear so by dint of hard lessons and many repeated…

— Anne Brontë

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

— Anne Bronte

“Oh, I don’t mind his being wicked: he’s all the better for that; and as for disliking him—I shouldn’t greatly object to…

— Anne Brontë

God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.

— Anne Bronte

“It is a troublesome thing, Halford, this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.”

— Anne Brontë

I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.

— Anne Bronte

“I always lacked common sense when taken by suprise.”

— Anne Brontë

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

— Anne Bronte

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

— Anne Bronte

“But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they…

— Anne Brontë

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

— Anne Bronte

Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!

— Anne Bronte

What business had I to think so much of one that never thought of me?

— Anne Bronte

“It was wrong to be so joyless, so desponding; I should have made God my friend, and to do His will the…

— Anne Brontë

“Lehet, hogy nyomorultul érezné magát az otthona nélkül, de élni akkor is tudna maga is; és nem is érezné magát olyan nyomorultul,…

— Anne Brontë

I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep…

— Anne Bronte

To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it…

— Anne Bronte

You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him.…

— Anne Bronte

I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought…

— Anne Bronte

Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to…

— Anne Bronte

My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.

— Anne Bronte

Yet, should thy darkest fears be true, If Heaven be so severe, That such a soul as thine is lost, Oh! how…

— Anne Bronte

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and…

— Anne Bronte