English novelist & poet (1820-1849)
A burst of passion is a fine rousing thing upon occasion, Helen, and a flood of tears is marvelously affecting, but, when indulged too often, they are both deuced plaguy things for spoiling one's beauty and tiring out one's friends.
ANNE BRONTË
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Life and hope must cease together.
ANNE BRONTË
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
However little you may esteem them as individuals, it is not pleasant to be looked upon as a liar and a hypocrite, to be thought to practice what you abhor, and to encourage the vices you would discountenance, to find your good intentions frustrated, and your hands crippled by your supposed unworthiness, and to bring disgrace on the principles you profess.
ANNE BRONTË
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The demon of drink was as black as the demon of play, and nearly as hard to get rid of -- especially as his kind friends did all they could to second the promptings of his own insatiable cravings.
ANNE BRONTË
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
My God! O let me call Thee mine!
Weak, wretched sinner though I be,
My trembling soul would fain be Thine,
My feeble faith still clings to Thee.
ANNE BRONTË
"A Prayer"
God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.
ANNE BRONTË
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
That none deserve eternal bliss I know:
Unmerited the grace in mercy given,
But none shall sink to everlasting woe
That have not well deserved the wrath of Heaven.
ANNE BRONTË
"A Word to the Calvinists"
There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.
ANNE BRONTË
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall