Quotes by Anne Brontë

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

“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...”

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

“If you would have your son to walk honourably 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 ...”

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

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

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

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

“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 supposed.”

“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 troubl...”

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

“But, God knows best, I concluded.”

“That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, and felt that it was true.”

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

“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, t...”

“But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.”

“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...”

“He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. To be near him, to hear him talk as he did talk, and to feel that he thought ...”

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