I tried to cheer her up, and apparently succeeded in some degree, before the walk was over; but in the very act my conscience reproved me, knowing, as I did, that, sooner or later, the tie must be broken, and this was only nourishing false hopes and putting off the evil day.
Anne BrontëTags: false-hope putting-off
It is natural for our unamiable sex to dislike the creatures, for you ladies lavish so many caresses upon them.
Anne BrontëTags: cats men women dogs pets dislike caress
I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater. Some parents have entirely prohibited their children from tasting intoxicating liquors; but a parent’s authority cannot last for ever; children are naturally prone to hanker after forbidden things; and a child, in such a case, would be likely to have a strong curiosity to taste, and try the effect of what has been so lauded and enjoyed by others, so strictly forbidden to himself – which curiosity would generally be gratified on the first convenient opportunity; and the restraint once broken, serious consequences might ensue.
Anne BrontëTags: parents children evil excess moderation control abstinence upbringing temperance
If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.
Anne BrontëTags: children mother over-indulgence upbringing contempt
When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning.
Anne BrontëTags: women opinions reasoning argument withstand
I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.
Anne BrontëTags: thinking disapproval promises
I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza's, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it
Anne BrontëTags: society evil pleasure falling-in-love
When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.
Anne BrontëIf you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do.
Anne BrontëTags: pleasure mother comfort convenience
No one can be happy in eternal solitude.
Anne BrontëTags: solitude eternity no-one
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