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Anne Brontë Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.”
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall(A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
Tagged: Sensitive, Insecure, Closed Off
“Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.”
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall(A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
Tagged: Love, Happiness, romance
“How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!”
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall(A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
Tagged: Crying, upset, Tears
“Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.”
— Anne Brontë, Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Wordsworth Classics)
Tagged: beauty, Attraction
“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 Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall(A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
Tagged: Happiness, Sadness, Crying, smiling
“Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.”
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall(A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
Tagged: Single, Unmarried, Men
“No one can be happy in eternal solitude.”
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall(A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
Tagged: Alone, Single, Solitude
“Matrimony is a serious thing.”
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall(A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
Tagged: Marriage, wedding, Commitment
“I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.”
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall(A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
Tagged: Love, Protection, strength
“I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.”
— Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
Tagged: Common Sense, surprise, Confused
“If she were more perfect, she would be less interesting.”
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall(A Penguin Classics Hardcover)
Tagged: Perfection, interesting, Personality
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