Quote

And why should he interest himself at all in my moral and intellectual capacities: what is it to him what I think and feel?' I asked myself. And my heart throbbed in answer to the question.

Anne Bronte

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anne Bronte
Age: 29 †
Born: 1820
Born: January 17
Died: 1849
Died: May 28
Governess
Novelist
Poet
Thornton
West Yorkshire
Acton Bell
Ann Brontë
Anne Bronte
Ann Bronte
Annie Bronte
Interest
Capacities
Feel
Capacity
Feels
Answer
Heart
Intellectual
Think
Asked
Thinking
Question
Answers
Moral
Throbbed

More quotes by Anne Bronte

Image
I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be always so, what shall I do with the serious part of myself?
Anne Bronte
Image
It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
Anne Bronte
Image
She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.
Anne Bronte
Image
You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too.
Anne Bronte
Image
I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.
Anne Bronte
Image
You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
Anne Bronte
Image
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other besides, I like to enjoy my life at all sides and ends, which cannot be done by one that suffers himself to be the slave of a single propensity.
Anne Bronte
Image
What a fool you must be, said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.
Anne Bronte
Image
All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.
Anne Bronte
Image
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 .
Anne Bronte
Image
Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.
Anne Bronte
Image
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.
Anne Bronte
Image
You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.
Anne Bronte
Image
I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow creature's heart: but we have some thoughts that all the angels in heaven are welcome to behold -- but not our brother-men -- not even the best and kindest amongst them.
Anne Bronte
Image
I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup.
Anne Bronte
Image
To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.
Anne Bronte
Image
How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!
Anne Bronte
Image
When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.
Anne Bronte
Image
Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!
Anne Bronte
Image
I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.
Anne Bronte