Top 100 Anne Bronte Quotes
#1. But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.
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#2. Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
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#3. The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.
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#4. The best way to enjoy yourself is to do what is right and hate nobody.
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#5. It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
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#6. If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.
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#7. Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.
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#8. Farewell to thee! but not farewell
To all my fondest thoughts of thee:
Within my heart they still shall dwell;
And they shall cheer and comfort me.
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#9. Oh, Youth may listen patiently,
While sad Experience tells her tale,
But Doubt sits smiling in his eye,
For ardent Hope will still prevail!
He hears how feeble Pleasure dies,
By guilt destroyed, and pain and woe;
He turns to Hope - and she replies,
Believe it not-it is not so!
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#10. It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.
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#11. The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live ...
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#12. This considerably softened my resentment, though it did not make me relent. I was determined to show him that my heart was not his slave, and I could live without him if I chose.
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#13. No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of them as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is more vanity and vexation of spirit.
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#14. if I can gain the public ear at all, I would rather whisper a few wholesome truths therein than much soft nonsense
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#15. It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them.
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#16. It is never too late to reform, as long as you have the sense to desire it, and the strength to execute your purpose.
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#17. And so you prefer her faults to other people's perfections?
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#18. What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.
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#19. ...sick of mankind and their disgusting ways...
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#21. How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!
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#22. You prefer her faults to other people's perfection.
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#23. It was wrong to be so joyless, so desponding; I should have made God my friend, and to do His will the pleasure and the business of my life; but faith was weak, and passion was too strong.
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#24. I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be always so, what shall I do with the serious part of myself?
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#25. 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 with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup.
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#26. I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.
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#27. And I imagine that, though cold and haughty in her general demeanor, and even exacting in her requirements, she has strong affections for those who can reach them ...
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#28. The best compliment to a mother is to appreciate her little one.
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#29. All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.
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#30. It's well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you may not find your confidence misplaced.
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#31. She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.
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#32. Never! while heaven spares my reason,' replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.
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#33. A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.
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#34. Therefore, have done with this nonsense: you have no ground for hope: dismiss, at once, these hurtful thoughts and foolish wishes from your mind, and turn to your own duty, and the dull blank life that lies before you. You might have known such happiness was not for you.
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#36. I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.
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#37. I flatter myself, at times, that though among them, I am not of them
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#38. I don't know how to talk to you, Mrs. Huntingdon ... you are only half a woman
your nature must be half human, half angelic. Such goodness overawes me; I don't know what to make of it.
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#39. What can't be cured must be endured," said I,
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#40. The rose I gave you was an emblem of my
heart,' said she; 'would you take it away and
leave me here alone?'
'Would you give me your hand too, if I asked
it?'
'Have I not said enough?
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#41. [Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.
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#42. Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.
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#43. You'll find a man can live without his money as merrily as a tortoise without its head, or a wasp without its body." '"But
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#44. I'm not going to defile my fingers with him,' said I, in answer to the maternal intercession. 'I wouldn't touch him with the tongs.' I
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#45. God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensual darkness from his eyes, but I could not.
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#46. My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will.
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#47. Although I maintain that if she were more perfect, she would be less interesting.
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#48. I was infatuated once with a foolish, besotted affection, that clung to him in spite of his unworthiness, but it is fairly gone now
wholly crushed and withered away; and he has none but himself and his vices to thank for it.
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#49. You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.
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#50. My nature was not originally calm,' said I. 'I have learned to appear so by dint of hard lessons and many repeated efforts.
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#51. There's always a chance of death; and it is always well to live with such a chance in view
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#52. You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too.
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#53. It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.
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#54. In love afairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child - ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride.
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#55. One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.
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#56. Of him to whom less is given, less will be required, but our utmost exertions are required of us all.
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#57. A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
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#58. I gave up hoping ... But, still, I would think of him, I would cherish his image in my mind, and treasure every word, look and gesture that memory could retain.
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#59. Who had taken a violent fancy to me, mistaking me for something vastly better than I was.
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#60. 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 asked myself. And my heart throbbed in answer to the question.
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#61. Well, and what was there in that?
Who ever hung his hopes upon so frail a twig?
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#63. There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the mind, after so much constraint and formality as I had been doomed to suffer.
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#64. When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning.
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#65. When we had surmounted the acclivity, I was about to withdraw my arm from his, but by a slight tightening of the elbow was tacitly informed that such was not his will, and accordingly desisted.
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#66. If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
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#67. It is a troublesome thing, Halford, this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.
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#69. When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one's anger.
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#70. I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.
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#71. What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?
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#72. It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever - bless them, dear creatures!
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#73. 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, or those which tend to evil till they become your masters, and neglect the good till they dwindle away, you have only yourself to blame.
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#74. I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour in the eyes of those whose opinion was more than that of all the world to me.
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#75. I hate talking where there is no exchange of ideas or sentiments, and no good given or received
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#76. Well, let them seize on all they can;
One treasure still is mine,
A heart that loves to think on thee,
And feels the worth of thine.
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#77. Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please
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#78. I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.
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#79. A girl's affections should never be won unsought.
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#80. Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.
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#81. He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him.
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#82. No, but still it is very unpleasant to live with such unimpressible, incomprehensible creatures. You cannot love them; and if you could, your love would be utterly thrown away: they could neither return it, nor value, nor understand it.
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#83. [B]eauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.
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#84. Nobody knew him as I did; nobody could appreciate him as I did; nobody could love him as I - could.
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#85. No one can be happy in eternal solitude.
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#86. I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.
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#87. I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow creature's heart: but we have some thoughts that all the angels in heaven are welcome to behold
but not our brother-men
not even the best and kindest amongst them.
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#88. 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, I will endeavor to promote the welfare of those around me, and my reward shall be hereafter.
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#89. To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.
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#90. In all we do, and hear, and see,
Is restless Toil and Vanity.
While yet the rolling earth abides,
Men come and go like ocean tides
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#91. You have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!
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#92. Revenge! No - what good would that do? - it would make him no better, and me no happier.' 'I
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#93. If you would have your son to walk honorably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.
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#94. Why so? one would think at such a time you would most exult in your privilege of being able to imitate the various brilliant and delightful touches of nature.
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#95. Oh, they have robbed me of the hope. My spirit held so dear; They will not let me hear that voice My soul delights to hear.
They will not let me see that face I so delight to see; And they have taken all thy smiles. And all thy love from me.
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#96. Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!
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#97. The reprehensible presumption of individuals who attempted to think for themselves in matters connected with religion, or to be guided by their own interpretations of Scripture,
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#98. I'll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.
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#99. 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 else.
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#100. Yet, should thy darkest fears be true, If Heaven be so severe, That such a soul as thine is lost, Oh! how shall I appear?
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