He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly Anne Bronte More Quotes by Anne Bronte More Quotes From Anne Bronte Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves. Anne Bronte chess-players player chess It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe. Anne Bronte foe arms hero There is always a but in this imperfect world. Anne Bronte a-perfect-world imperfect-world imperfection I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza's, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it Anne Bronte stars fall thinking No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect. Anne Bronte delight cherish mind Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they shall want no good thing that a mother's care can give. Anne Bronte mother book children It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth. Anne Bronte good-intentions teeth feelings I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it. Anne Bronte miserable pride helping You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike. Anne Bronte slavery might men Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship Anne Bronte acquaintance intimate real My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will. Anne Bronte bitterness cups sweet 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. Anne Bronte mother home boys Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own. Anne Bronte humble names trying There is perfect love in heaven! Anne Bronte perfect-love perfect heaven Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too. Anne Bronte forgetfulness wish desire How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own! Anne Bronte distress odd tears To wheedle and coax is safer than to command. Anne Bronte command You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too. Anne Bronte eye mother character The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments Anne Bronte prove husband lovers God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us. Anne Bronte gods-will deeds judging
