Anne Bronte Quotes

Severed and gone, so many years! And art thou still so dear to me,

Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.

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

We often pity the poor, because they have no leisure to mourn their departed relatives, and necessity obliges them to labor through their severest afflictions: but is not active employment the best re...

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 a...

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,

I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little...

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you se...

Čitanje je moje najdraže zanimanje, kada za to imam slobodnog vremena i knjiga koje bih čitala.

Mogla bih biti uistinu sretna u kući punoj neprijatelja, kada bih imala samo jednog prijatelja, koji bi me istinski, duboko i vjerno volio.

But our wishes are like tinder: the flint and steel of circumstances are continually striking out sparks, which vanish immediately, unless they chance to fall upon the tinder of our wishes; then, they...

Though solitude, endured too long,Bids youthful joys too soon decay,Makes mirth a stranger to my tongue,And overclouds my noon of day;When kindly thoughts that would have way,Flow back discouraged to...

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

Well, and what was there in that?--Who ever hung his hopes upon so frail a twig?

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?

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone - there are many, many other things to be considered.

I love the silent hour of night,For blissful dreams may then arise,Revealing to my charmed sightWhat may not bless my waking eyes.

You would have us encourage our sons to prove all things by their own experience, while our daughters must not even profit by the experience of others.

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.

Though riches had charms, poverty had no terrors for an inexperiencedgirl like me. Indeed, to say the truth, there was something exhilaratingin the idea of being driven to straits, and thrown upon our...