Anne Bronte quote: "“I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.”"

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and ma...
ANNE BRONTE

It seems as if life and hope must cease together.
ANNE BRONTE

Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of ...
ANNE BRONTE

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise...
ANNE BRONTE

There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.
ANNE BRONTE

No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.
ANNE BRONTE

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I...
ANNE BRONTE

It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for eve...
ANNE BRONTE

A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him t...
ANNE BRONTE

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
ANNE BRONTE

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if ...
ANNE BRONTE

And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the...
ANNE BRONTE

Adoration isn't love.
ANNE BRONTE

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of ...
ANNE BRONTE

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.
ANNE BRONTE

His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shri...
ANNE BRONTE

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor pe...
ANNE BRONTE

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I...
ANNE BRONTE

Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, l...
ANNE BRONTE

There is always a "but" in this imperfect world.
ANNE BRONTE

My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring.
ANNE BRONTE

I would not send a poor girl into the world, . . . ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor w...
ANNE BRONTE

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the s...
ANNE BRONTE

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care abou...
ANNE BRONTE

My soul is awakened,
my spirit is soaring.
ANNE BRONTE

Honest people don't hide their deeds.
EMILY BRONTE

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-br...
EMILY BRONTE

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

As to the sufferers, whose sole inheritance was labour, and who had lost that inheritance - who coul...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather tha...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, ...
EMILY BRONTE

But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me ...
EMILY BRONTE

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. We are, and mus...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...
EMILY BRONTE

I tell you I must go! Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automa...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to ...
EMILY BRONTE

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
EMILY BRONTE

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
EMILY BRONTE

Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labors for his race; he clears t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourse...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to con...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into somethi...
EMILY BRONTE

There's no use in weeping,
Though we are condemned to part:
There's such a thing as keeping CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Look twice before you leap.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitt...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Conventionality is not morality.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
EMILY BRONTE

It is vain to say human beings might be satisfied with tranquillity; they must have action, and they...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and ab...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this wo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they ha...
EMILY BRONTE

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Who has words at the right moment?
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Let your performance do the thinking.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter -...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impr...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Do...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
EMILY BRONTE

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Better to be without logic than without feeling.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
EMILY BRONTE

I have spent a very long time in Cate's shadow - she casts a pretty big one. I have always had t...
BRONTE CAMPBELL

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and abs...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; an...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other...
EMILY BRONTE

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise fo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again an...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving...
EMILY BRONTE

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourse...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their result...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I cou...
EMILY BRONTE

...he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is...
EMILY BRONTE

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Having levelled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me...
EMILY BRONTE

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them
EMILY BRONTE

Honest people don't hide their deeds.
EMILY BRONTE

...my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath - a source of little visible delight, ...
EMILY BRONTE

Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, ...
EMILY BRONTE

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere; I see Heaven's glories shi...
EMILY BRONTE

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gon...
EMILY BRONTE

You said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know tha...
EMILY BRONTE

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree
EMILY BRONTE

Yesterday afternoon set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it by my study fire, instead o...
EMILY BRONTE

Cold in the earth - and the deep snow piled above thee, / Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grav...
EMILY BRONTE

A wild, wick slip she was - but, she had the bonniest eye and sweetest smile, and lightest foot in t...
EMILY BRONTE

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
EMILY BRONTE

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their result...
EMILY BRONTE

There is not room for Death, / Nor atom that his might could render void: / Thou - Thou art Being an...
EMILY BRONTE

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
EMILY BRONTE

Terror made me cruel . . .
EMILY BRONTE

So much has religion done for me; turning the original materials to the best account; pruning and tr...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impr...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot...
EMILY BRONTE

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
EMILY BRONTE

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will . . .
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Oh! dreadful is the check - intense the agony - / When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to...
EMILY BRONTE

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter -- often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Be a governess! Better be a slave at once!
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Good-night, Dr. John; you are good, you are beautiful; but you are not mine. Good-night, and God ble...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Reader, I married him.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Ever after that I knew what I was for him; and what I might be for the rest of the world, I ceased p...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the o...
EMILY BRONTE

I think, for the benefit of our parents, the perfect night out would be when Cate and I touch the wa...
BRONTE CAMPBELL

Terror made me cruel.
EMILY BRONTE

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an exis...
EMILY BRONTE

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.
EMILY BRONTE

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
EMILY BRONTE

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them...
EMILY BRONTE

I think it's always a really stupid thing to base your achievement on someone else. I just want ...
BRONTE CAMPBELL

I love standing up behind the blocks, and I love that moment just before you dive in and it goes qui...
BRONTE CAMPBELL

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

I normally fly under the radar, and I'm normally not the best in my family, even though I'm ...
BRONTE CAMPBELL

I have a very pessimistic view that every win takes you closer to a loss because no-one in the world...
BRONTE CAMPBELL

I was a crazy little seven-year-old. I used to get up an hour early to watch the big kids train. I t...
BRONTE CAMPBELL

When we were very, very young, I was actually better than Cate was at swimming, and I was not very h...
BRONTE CAMPBELL

I collect rings from every country that I compete in, and I swap them around and wear different ones...
BRONTE CAMPBELL

I'm actually really good at vacuuming, and I don't even mind it so much. I hate dusting with...
BRONTE CAMPBELL

It might sound stupid, but I don't enter a race to win - I enter a race because I love racing.
BRONTE CAMPBELL

I learnt my lessons very early on that it's probably a good thing to be humble in victory as wel...
BRONTE CAMPBELL

He said the pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till evening on a b...
EMILY BRONTE

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
ANNE FRANK

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother T...
ANNE LAMOTT

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.
ANNE CAMPBELL

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and...
ANNE BAXTER

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to b...
ANNE RICE

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
ANNE FRANK

I live in a crazy time.
ANNE FRANK

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not le...
ANNE LAMOTT

Ireland is such an amazing country, and I have this little dream in the back of my head that someday...
ANNE HATHAWAY

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and ...
ANNE LAMOTT

I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our ...
ANNE LAMOTT

For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big ...
ANNE LAMOTT

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.
ANNE SPENCER

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
ANNE BRADSTREET

Timothy Dunnigan: The kinds of metaphorical language that we use to describe the Hmong say far more ...
ANNE FADIMAN

I got to the point where the vampire began describing his brother's death, and the whole thing just ...
ANNE RICE

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
ANNE RICE

The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all thin...
ANNE SMEDLEY

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than tha...
ANNE FRANK

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and ...
ANNE FRANK

the conversion of Anne Frank into usable goods.
ANNE FRANK

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they c...
ANNE FRANK

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.
ANNE FRANK

I love rom-coms, and I was bummed that they sort of stopped making them around the time I was old en...
ANNE HATHAWAY

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the...
ANNE DUDLEY

I started in the restaurant business at the age of 19 as a waitress. I loved the atmosphere and the ...
ANNE BURRELL

I've cancelled all my subscriptions to poetry magazines. I prefer to read the 'New Scientist...
ANNE STEVENSON

Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
ANNE BRADSTREET

When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box . . .
ANNE RICE

Life has no meaning any more does it? The wine has no taste, the food sickens you, there seems no re...
ANNE RICE

You'll sing a song of victory, eternally, though there is none to be had.
ANNE RICE

I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire LeStat than Edw...
ANNE RICE

But at that moment I heard Claudia's voice. She was calling my name. I turned, and, through the tang...
ANNE RICE

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know w...
ANNE RICE

During this crisis you failed us
ANNE RICE

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
ANNE RICE

I look around at my peers, and I'm so blown away by their talent and their beauty and their cool...
ANNE HATHAWAY

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.
ANNE LAMOTT

I cannot promise very much.I give you the images I know.Lie still with me and watch.We laugh and we ...
ANNE SEXTON

After two undefeated seasons of 'Worst Cooks in America,' I'm ready for a third. Going a...
ANNE BURRELL

The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the deva...
ANNE PERRY

I work reasonably hard. Though probably not harder than many people. I work probably eight or nine h...
ANNE PERRY

“I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.”

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Anne Bronte

“I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.”

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