Anne Bronte
Anne Bronte
Anne Brontëwas an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 January 1820
feelings teeth good-intentions
It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.
perfect heaven perfect-love
There is perfect love in heaven!
humble names trying
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.
sweet bitterness cups
My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will.
pride helping miserable
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.
desire wish forgetfulness
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.
tears odd distress
How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!
judging deeds gods-will
God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.
dust jewels water
But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially as he that does so will be likely to incur more scorn and obloquy for the mud and water into which he has ventured to plunge, than thanks for the jewel he procures; as like in manner, she who undertakes the cleansing of a careless bachelor's apartment will be liable to more abuse for the dust she raises than commendation for the clearance she effects.
solitude eternal
No one can be happy in eternal solitude.
husband lovers prove
The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments
together cease
Life and hope must cease together.
tongue speak slander
If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
thinking
What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?