Anne Bront Quotes
She is not determined to forget me. It would be wrong to forget one so deeply and fondly devoted to her, who can so thoroughly appreciate her excellencies, and sympathise with all her thoughts, as I can do, and it would be wrong in me to forget so excellent and divine a piece of God's creation as she, when I have once so truly loved and known her.
Anne Bront
Never mind our kind friends: if they can part our bodies, it is enough; in God's name, let them not sunder our souls!
Anne Bront
Don't you know that every time we meet the thoughts of the final parting will become more painful? Don't you feel that every interview makes us dearer to each other than the last?
Anne Bront
If such are your expectations of matrimony, Esther, you must, indeed, be careful whom you marry - or rather, you must avoid it altogether.
Anne Bront
Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result
Anne Bront
Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.
Anne Bront
In the first place, I don't believe you,' answered I;: 'in the second, if you will be such a fool, I can't hinder it.
Anne Bront
Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.
Anne Bront
I sometimes think she has no feeling at all; and then I go on till she cries - and that satisfies me.
Anne Bront
And indeed I know not whether, at the time, it was not for him rather than myself that I blushed; for, since he and I are one, I so identify myself with him, that I feel his degradation, his failings, and transgressions as my own; I blush for him, I fear for him; I repent for him, weep, pray, and feel for him as for myself; but I cannot act for him; and hence, I must be and I am, debased, contaminated by the union, both in my own eyes, and in the actual truth.
Anne Bront
Friends as we are, we would willingly keep your failings to ourselves - even from ourselves if we could, unless by knowing them we could deliver you from them.
Anne Bront
But all our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.
Anne Bront
