Quotes About Anne Brontë

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.

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

I have omitted to give a detail of his words, from a notion that they would not interest the reader as they did me, and not because I have forgotten them.

Because, my dear, beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.

If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do.

No, but still it is very unpleasant to live with such unimpressible, incomprehensible creatures. You cannot love them; and if you could, your love would be utterly thrown away: they could neither return it, nor value, nor understand it.

There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the mind, after so much constraint and formality as I had been doomed to suffer.

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

if I can gain the public ear at all, I would rather whisper a few wholesome truths therein than much soft nonsense

Maybe Anne felt men did not really make sense, a suspicion that has occurred to women before and since.

But this time she declined my proffered aid in so kind and friendly a manner that I almost forgave her.

Anne Brontë studies the dynamics of group mentality, the mutual reinforcement of male 'club' behaviour.

If I tire, it will be of living in the world with you; not of living without your mockery of love.

Her husband, however, upon this second misdemeanour, immediately sought and obtained a divorce, and, not long after, married again.

It was no use beginning to dispute with such indulged, unreasoning creatures: so I held my peace. I was accustomed, now, to keeping silence when things distasteful to my ear were uttered; and now, too, I was used to wearing a placid smiling countenance when my heart was bitter within me.

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.