Famous Anne Bront Quotes

  • And so you prefer her faults to other people’s perfections? – Anne Bront

    And so you prefer her faults to other people’s perfections?– Anne Bront

  • And so you prefer her faults to other people’s perfections?– Anne Bront

  • . . . I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do. – Anne Bront

    . . . I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.– Anne Bront

  • If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do. – Anne Bront

    If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do.– Anne Bront

  • God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensual darkness from his eyes, but I could not. – Anne Bront

    God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensual darkness from his eyes, but I could not.– Anne Bront

  • No one can be happy in eternal solitude. – Anne Bront

    No one can be happy in eternal solitude.– Anne Bront

  • Never! while heaven spares my reason,’ replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own. – Anne Bront

    Never! while heaven spares my reason,’ replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.– Anne Bront

  • She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist’s pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes. – Anne Bront

    She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist’s pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.– Anne Bront

  • If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues. – Anne Bront

    If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.– Anne Bront

  • If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.– Anne Bront