Top 60 Anne Brontë Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I love the silent hour of night, For blissful dreams may then arise, Revealing to my charmed sight What may not bless my waking eyes.”

— Anne Brontë

2. “Farewell to Thee! But not farewell To all my fondest thoughts of Thee; Within my heart they still shall dwell And they shall cheer and comfort me.”

— Anne Brontë

3. “But, God knows best, I concluded.”

— Anne Brontë

4. “Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.”

— Anne Brontë

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5. “There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.”

— Anne Brontë

6. “There is always a but in this imperfect world.”

— Anne Brontë

7. “Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.”

— Anne Brontë

8. “I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.”

— Anne Brontë

9. “God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.”

— Anne Brontë

10. “Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.”

— Anne Brontë

11. “Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!”

— Anne Brontë

12. “All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.”

— Anne Brontë

13. “No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.”

— Anne Brontë

14. “The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.”

— Anne Brontë

15. “My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.”

— Anne Brontë

16. “Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.”

— Anne Brontë

17. “There is such a thing as looking through a person’s eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another’s soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.”

— Anne Brontë

18. “No one can be happy in eternal solitude.”

— Anne Brontë

19. “But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.”

— Anne Brontë

20. “It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.”

— Anne Brontë

21. “Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.”

— Anne Brontë

22. “You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.”

— Anne Brontë

23. “You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.”

— Anne Brontë

24. “I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour in the eyes of those whose opinion was more than that of all the world to me.”

— Anne Brontë

25. “I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.”

— Anne Brontë

26. “Life and hope must cease together.”

— Anne Brontë

27. “There is perfect love in heaven!”

— Anne Brontë

28. “I do believe a young lady can’t be too careful who she marries.”

— Anne Brontë

29. “It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”

— Anne Brontë

30. “My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.”

— Anne Brontë

31. “Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark’s song?”

— Anne Brontë

32. “How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!”

— Anne Brontë

33. “To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.”

— Anne Brontë

34. “A man must have something to grumble about; and if he cant complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.”

— Anne Brontë

35. “Chess-players are so unsociable, they are no company for any but themselves.”

— Anne Brontë

36. “Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?”

— Anne Brontë

37. “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, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.”

— Anne Brontë

38. “The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live...”

— Anne Brontë

39. “Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship.”

— Anne Brontë

40. “What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?”

— Anne Brontë

41. “I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow creature’s heart: but we have some thoughts that all the angels in heaven are welcome to behold – but not our brother-men – not even the best and kindest amongst them.”

— Anne Brontë

42. “He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly.”

— Anne Brontë

43. “If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.”

— Anne Brontë

44. “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.”

— Anne Brontë

45. “In love affairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child – ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride.”

— Anne Brontë

46. “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 Brontë

47. “It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.”

— Anne Brontë

48. “I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world.”

— Anne Brontë

49. “Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?”

— Anne Brontë

50. “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 Brontë