Anne Brontë on Time
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Anne Brontë, catalogued under time, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Anne Brontë, entry #60960: "I sometimes think she has no feeling at all; and then I go on till she cries — and that satisfies me."
Attributed to Anne Brontë, entry #129792: "Those, whose time is fully occupied, seldom complain of solitude."
5 Quotes by Anne Brontë on Time
"I sometimes think she has no feeling at all; and then I go on till she cries — and that satisfies me."
"Those, whose time is fully occupied, seldom complain of solitude."
"No one can be happy in eternal solitude."
"I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup."
"All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history or not, I am hardly competent to judge. I sometimes think it might prove useful to some, and entertaining to others; but the world may judge for itself. Shielded by my own obscurity, and by the lapse of years, and a few fictitious names, I do not fear to venture; and will candidly lay before the public what I would not disclose to the most intimate friend."