At your time of life, it's love that rules the roast: at mine, it's solid, serviceable gold.
Quotes from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — Anne Brontë
1820–1849 England
96 quotes
I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world!
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)
It is quite possible to be a good Christian without ceasing to be a happy, merry-hearted man.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.
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The more you loved your God the more deep and pure and true would be your love to me.
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There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.
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If you had no higher motive than the approval of your fellow mortal, it would do you little good.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.
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You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.
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A light wind swept over the corn; and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
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Those, whose time is fully occupied, seldom complain of solitude.
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There's nothing like active employment to console the afflicted.
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A girl's affections should never be won unsought.
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It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
It is a troublesome thing this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.
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He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anne Brontë (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.