Anne Bronte Quotes


"There is always a "but" in this imperfect world."
- Anne Bronte
(Related: World)

"She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else."
- Anne Bronte
(Related: Father, People, Cats, Children, Dogs, Poor)

"Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe."
- Anne Bronte
(Related: Heart, Eyes, Tears, Weeping)

"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
(Related: Power, Poor, Self, Will, World)

"But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose."
- Anne Bronte
"A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine."
- Anne Bronte
(Related: Nature, Light, Wind)

"If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone."
- Anne Bronte
(Related: Son, Leading, World)