Anne Brontë on Life
Browse 10 quotations attributed to Anne Brontë, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Anne Brontë, entry #33287: "It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them."
Attributed to Anne Brontë, entry #60566: "I perceive the backs of young ladies' drawings, like the postscripts of their letters, are the most important and interesting part of the concern."
10 Quotes by Anne Brontë on Life
"It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them."
"I perceive the backs of young ladies' drawings, like the postscripts of their letters, are the most important and interesting part of the concern."
"At your time of life, it's love that rules the roast: at mine, it's solid, serviceable gold."
"If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices."
"Though I hate him from my heart, and should rejoice at any calamity that could befall him, I'll leave him to God; and though I abhor my own life, I'll leave that, too, to Him that gave it."
"Life and hope must cease together."
"What the world stigmatizes as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the generous ideas of youth are too often over-clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false."
"I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other; besides, I like to enjoy my life at all sides and ends, which cannot be done by one that suffers himself to be the slave of a single propensity."
"As an animal, Matilda was all right, full of life, vigour, and activity; as an intelligent being, she was barbarously ignorant, indocile, careless, and irrational; and consequently, very distressing to one who had the task of cultivating her understanding, reforming her manners, and aiding her to acquire those ornamental attainments which, unlike her sister, she despised as much as the rest..."
"Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection, that though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but, in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result."