Anne Brontë Quotes

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

All our talents increase in the using and every faculty both good and bad strengthens by exercise.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I...

Every action we take everything we do is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what...

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone - there are m...

And so you prefer her faults to other people’s perfections?

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and ma...

But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive ...

Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy o...

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

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the s...

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

A few cold words on yonder stone, A corpse as cold as they can be -­ Vain words, and mouldering dust...

This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of them cou...

I gave up hoping...But, still, I would think of him, I would cherish his image in my mind, and treas...

Severed and gone, so many years! And art thou still so dear to me, That throbbing heart and burning ...

I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.

Well, Mr Markham, you that maintain that a boy should not be shielded from evil, but sent out to bat...

But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

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

I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and i...

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly sup...

By his [God's] help I will arise and address myself diligently to my appointed duty. If happiness in...

But, God knows best, I concluded.

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care abou...

A little girl loves her bird--Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? ...

The human heart is like india-rubber; a little swells it, but a great deal will not burst it. If "li...

Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and ...

Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man ...

I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty ...

Though riches had charms, poverty had no terrors for an inexperiencedgirl like me. Indeed, to say th...

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

I returned, however, with unabated vigour to my work—a more arduous task than anyone can imagine, wh...

I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in t...

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how...

The next visit I paid to Nancy Brown was in the second week in March: for, though I had many spare m...

But this gives no proper idea of my feelings at all; and no one that has not lived such a retired st...

One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxur...

It is foolish to wish for beauty.  Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care abo...

One glance he gave, one little smile at parting—it was but for a moment; but therein I read, or thou...

The human heart is like india-rubber; a little swells it, but a great deal will not burst it.

She spoke of these with animation, and heard my admiring comments with a smile of pleasure: that soo...

My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone....

But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sp...

We often pity the poor, because they have no leisure to mourn their departed relatives, and necessit...

Therefore, have done with this nonsense: you have no ground for hope: dismiss, at once, these hurtfu...

That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not...

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not -...

He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had be...

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

No, but still it is very unpleasant to live with such unimpressible, incomprehensible creatures. You...

I am sorry, Miss Grey, you should think it necessary to interfere with Master Bloomfield's amusement...

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when ...

I love the silent hour of night,For blissful dreams may then arise,Revealing to my charmed sightWhat...

Oh, Youth may listen patiently,While sad Experience tells her tale,But Doubt sits smiling in his eye...

Though solitude, endured too long,Bids youthful joys too soon decay,Makes mirth a stranger to my ton...

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than y...

Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot...

I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All nov...

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petti...

Never! while heaven spares my reason,’ replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize a...

If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a ...

Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings:...

I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was high...

Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldnes...

I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleas...

Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good ...

The rose I gave you was an emblem of myheart,' said she; 'would you take it away andleave me here al...

I was infatuated once with a foolish, besotted affection, that clung to him in spite of his unworthi...

There is another life both for you and for me,’ said I. ‘If it be the will of God that we should sow...

After breakfast, determined to pass as little of the day as possible in company with Lady Lowborough...

I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall serious...

. . . I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are ma...

I don’t know how to talk to you, Mrs. Huntingdon . . . you are only half a woman--your nature must b...

A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, headmired in others, bu...

She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read ...

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own...

I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of ...

He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him.

God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensu...

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to thin...

how shall I get through the months or years of my future life, in company with that man -- my greate...

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.

. . . you have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!

[B]eauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds o...

. . . because we cannot conceive that as we grow up our own minds will become so enlarged and elevat...

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in co...

To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpil...

I’ll tell you a piece of news--I hope you have not heard it before: for good, bad, or indifferent, o...

It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses...

It’s well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you...

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

There is perfect love in Heaven!

I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely t...

You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take...