Anne Bronte Quotes

Keep a guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlet, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness. Receive, coldly and dispassionately, every attention...

Never! while heaven spares my reason,’ replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.

No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

One glance he gave, one little smile at parting--it was but for a moment;but therein I read, a meaning that kindled in my heart a brighter flame of hope than had ever yet arisen.

The more happiness we bestow, the more we shall receive, even here; and the greater will be our reward in heaven when we rest from our labours. 

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 another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to disc...

When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties, or long oppressed by any powerful feelings which we must keep to ourselves, for which we can obtain and seek no sympathy from any living creature, and whi...

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, but I should never be tempted to do it; for I could not like him, if he were ever...

You prefer her faults to other people’s perfection.

And if you think you have wronged me by giving me your friendship, and occasionally admitting me to the enjoyment of your company and conversation, when all hopes of closer intimacy were vain - as ind...

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.

Glupo je žudjeti za ljepotom. Razumni ljudi nikada ju ne žele za sebe, niti im je stalo do nje kod drugih ljudi. Samo ako je um dobro prosvijećen, a srce na pravome mjestu, nikome nikada nije važna va...

I flatter myself, at times, that though among them, I am not of them

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.

I hate talking where there is no exchange of ideas or sentiments, and no good given or received

I tried to cheer her up, and apparently succeeded in some degree, before the walk was over; but in the very act my conscience reproved me, knowing, as I did, that, sooner or later, the tie must be bro...

I will give my whole heart and soul to my Maker if I can,' I answered, 'and not one atom more of it to you than He allows. What are you, sir, that you should set yourself up as a god, and presume to d...

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it. But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of a well, it needs some courag...

If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation

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...