Anne Brontë citations

Roman, La Recluse de Wildfell Hall, 1848

Roman, La Recluse de Wildfell Hall, 1848

Roman, La Recluse de Wildfell Hall, 1848

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XV : An Encounter and its Consequences; Gilbert Markham

Preface, 2nd edition (22 July 1848)
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Contexte: I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are, or should be, written for both men and women to read, and I am at loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.

Source: Agnes Grey

Source: Agnes Grey

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXII : Traits of Friendship; Helen Graham

The Narrow Way (1848)
Contexte: On all her breezes borne
Earth yields no scents like those;
But he, that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. III : A Controversy; Gilbert to Helen

Source: Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), Dreams (1845)

Source: Agnes Grey (1847), Ch. I : The Parsonage
Contexte: All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history or not, I am hardly competent to judge. I sometimes think it might prove useful to some, and entertaining to others; but the world may judge for itself. Shielded by my own obscurity, and by the lapse of years, and a few fictitious names, I do not fear to venture; and will candidly lay before the public what I would not disclose to the most intimate friend.

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XII : A Tête-à-tête and a Discovery; Gilbert and Helen

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), Dreams (1845)
Contexte: While on my lonely couch I lie,
I seldom feel myself alone,
For fancy fills my dreaming eye
With scenes and pleasures of its own.
Then I may cherish at my breast
An infant's form beloved and fair,
May smile and soothe it into rest
With all a Mother's fondest care.

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXV : Provocations; Helen to Walter

Letter to Ellen Hussey (5 April 1849), published in The Letters of Charlotte Brontë : With a Selection of Letters by Family and Friends (1995), edited by Margaret Smith, Vol. II: 1848–1851, p. 195
Contexte: I have no horror of death: if I thought it inevitable I think I could quietly resign myself to the prospect... But I wish it would please God to spare me not only for Papa's and Charlotte's sakes, but because I long to do some good in the world before I leave it. I have many schemes in my head for future practice – humble and limited indeed – but still I should not like them all to come to nothing, and myself to have lived to so little purpose. But God's will be done.

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), To Cowper (1842)
Contexte: p>All for myself the sigh would swell,
The tear of anguish start;
I little knew what wilder woe
Had filled the Poet's heart.I did not know the nights of gloom,
The days of misery;
The long, long years of dark despair,
That crushed and tortured thee.</p

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), A Word to the Calvinists (1843)
Contexte: p>I ask not how remote the day
Nor what the sinner's woe
Before their dross is purged away,
Enough for me to knowThat when the cup of wrath is drained,
The metal purified,
They'll cling to what they once disdained,
And live by Him that died.</p

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), To Cowper (1842)
Contexte: p>All for myself the sigh would swell,
The tear of anguish start;
I little knew what wilder woe
Had filled the Poet's heart.I did not know the nights of gloom,
The days of misery;
The long, long years of dark despair,
That crushed and tortured thee.</p

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), A Prayer (1844)

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), A Word to the Calvinists (1843)
Contexte: p>I ask not how remote the day
Nor what the sinner's woe
Before their dross is purged away,
Enough for me to knowThat when the cup of wrath is drained,
The metal purified,
They'll cling to what they once disdained,
And live by Him that died.</p

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), Dreams (1845)

Source: Agnes Grey

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. IV : The Party; Gilbert Markham about Frederick Lawrence

Source: Agnes Grey

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXVII : Misdemeanour; Helen to Arthur

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day (1842)
Contexte: My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring <br/> And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze; <br/> For above and around me the wild wind is roaring, <br/> Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.
Contexte: My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring
And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze;
For above and around me the wild wind is roaring,
Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.

Source: Agnes Grey

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XVI : The Warning of Experience; Mrs. Maxwell to Helen
Contexte: Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. III : A Controversy; Gilbert to Helen