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Anne Brontë

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

  • Julia Kuleshovahas quoted2 years ago
    'No matter. 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.'
  • Alexandra Skitiovahas quoted2 years ago
    God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.
  • Alexandra Skitiovahas quoted2 years ago
    I had just ensconced myself within the bow of the window, and was looking out upon the west, where the darkening hills rose sharply defined against the clear amber light of evening, that gradually blended and faded away into the pure, pale blue of the upper sky, where one bright star was shining through, as if to promise – 'When that dying light is gone, the world will not be left in darkness, and they who trust in God, whose minds are unbeclouded by the mists of unbelief and sin, are never wholly comfortless,'
  • Alexandra Skitiovahas quoted2 years ago
    but even this consolation was embittered by the constantly-recurring thought, 'How shall I teach him hereafter to respect his father, and yet to avoid his example?'
  • Alexandra Skitiovahas quoted2 years ago
    Stop, poor sinner, stop and think

    Before you further go,

    No longer sport upon the brink

    Of everlasting woe."
  • Alexandra Skitiovahas quoted2 years ago
    '"What can't be cured must be endured," said I
  • Alexandra Skitiovahas quoted2 years ago
    He that "is able to subdue all things to Himself will have all men to be saved," and "will, in the fulness of time, gather together in one all things in Christ Jesus, who tasted death for every man, and in whom God will reconcile all things to Himself, whether they be things in earth or things in heaven."'
  • Alexandra Skitiovahas quoted2 years ago
    I kept up my attention on this occasion as long as I could, but when my powers were exhausted I stole away to seek a few minutes' repose in this quiet walk. I hate talking where there is no exchange of ideas or sentiments, and no good given or received.'
  • Richmond Lattimorehas quoted3 years ago
    In childhood, I had always been accustomed to regard him with a feeling of reverential awe
  • Richmond Lattimorehas quoted3 years ago
    occasions. He was a man of fixed principles, strong prejudices, and regular habits, intolerant of dissent in any shape
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