Anne Bronte Quotes

What is it that constitutes virtue, Mrs Graham? Is it the circumstance of being able and willing to resist temptation; or that of having no temptation to resist?

He’ll be all right when he’s married, as Mama says; and reformed rakes make the best husbands, everybody knows. I only wish he were not so ugly—that’s all I think about—but then there’s no choice here in the country.

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.

My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze; For above and around me the wild wind is roaring, Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.