What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.
Anne BrontëTag: bronte-sisters agnes-grey anne-bronte unrequitet-love
There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the mind, after so much constraint and formality as I had been doomed to suffer.
Anne BrontëI would not send a poor girl into the world, unarmed against her foes, and ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.
Anne BrontëIt is not, indeed, to be supposed that you would wish to marry any one till you were asked: a girl's affections should never be won unsought. But when they are sought - when the citadel of the heart is fairly besieged - it is apt to surrender sooner than the owner is aware of, and often against her better judgment, and in opposition to all her preconceived ideas of what she could have loved, unless she be extremely careful and discreet.
Anne BrontëMatrimony is a serious thing.
Anne BrontëWhen I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone - there are many, many other things to be considered.
Anne BrontëTag: advice love family marriage
Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good company is Huntingdon, after all - you can't imagine what a jovial good fellow he is when he's not fairly drunk, only just primed or half-seas-over - we all have a bit of a liking for him at the bottom of our hearts, though we can't respect him.'
'But should you wish yourself to be like him?'
'No, I'd rather be like myself, bad as I am.
Tag: individuality be-yourself flaws
I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleasure of all is not the enjoyment of my company - why - it will be the worse for him - that's all.'
'If such are your expectations of matrimony, Esther, you must, indeed, be careful whom you marry - or rather, you must avoid it altogether.
Tag: love husband wife expectations company matrimony
He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him.
Anne BrontëTag: hate appreciation
Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.
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