Quote

If ever I am a mother I will zealously strive against this crime of over- indulgence. I can hardly give it a milder name when I think of the evils it brings.

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
Evil
Indulgence
Mother
Evils
Give
Hardly
Ever
Brings
Giving
Strive
Think
Crime
Thinking
Name
Zealously
Names
Milder

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
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
Anne Bronte
Image
He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly
Anne Bronte
Image
There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.
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
Image
There is always a but in this imperfect world.
Anne Bronte
Image
if I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation
Anne Bronte
Image
There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
Anne Bronte
Image
No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.
Anne Bronte
Image
The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.
Anne Bronte
Image
The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments
Anne Bronte
Image
Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.
Anne Bronte
Image
the best compliment to a mother is to appreciate her little one.
Anne Bronte
Image
But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.
Anne Bronte
Image
But, God knows best, I concluded.
Anne Bronte
Image
A man must have something to grumble about and if he cant complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.
Anne Bronte
Image
My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.
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
I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.
Anne Bronte
Image
Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.
Anne Bronte