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Anne Brontë on Christmas

1820–1849 England

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12 quotes

At your time of life, it's love that rules the roast: at mine, it's solid, serviceable gold.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

It is a woman's nature to be constant — to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

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

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

The more you loved your God the more deep and pure and true would be your love to me.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

Since I love him so much, I can easily forgive him for loving himself.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

He despises me, because he knows I love him.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

Adoration isn’t love. I adore Annabella, but I don’t love her; and I love thee, Milicent, but I don’t adore thee.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

It’s well to have such a comfortable assurance regarding the worth of those we love. I only wish you may not find your confidence misplaced.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

There is perfect love in heaven!

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

I ever give a thought to another, you may well spare it, for those fancies are here and gone like a flash of lightning, while my love for you burns on steadily, and for ever, like the sun.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

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.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anne Brontë (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.