Anne Brontë Quotes: 10

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

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

  Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters

• 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.

  Agnes Grey

• I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

  The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

• I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.

  The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

• Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

  Agnes Grey

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

  Agnes Grey

• 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 me worthy to be so spoken to - capable of understanding and duly appreciating such discourse - was enough.

  Agnes Grey

• What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

• 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, they instantly ignite, and the flame of hope is kindled in a moment.

  Agnes Grey