Anne Brontë Quotes - Page 2

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.

Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result

Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

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.

God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness - and LOVE; but if this idea is too vast for your human faculties - if your mind loses itself in its overwhelming infinitude, fix it on Him who condescended to take our nature upon Him, who was raised to Heaven even in His glorified human body, in whom the fulness of the Godhead shines.

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

It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them.