Anne Bronte
Novelist
1820-01-17 – 1849-05-28
Anne Brontë was an English novelist and poet, and the youngest of the Brontë sisters. She is best known for the novels Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
Quotes by Anne Bronte
-
Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection: that, though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear.
Read quote -
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 hand, but let him learn to go alone.
Read quote -
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
Read quote -
But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.
Read quote -
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.
Read quote -
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.
Read quote -
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
Read quote -
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.
Read quote -
Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?
Read quote