The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Quotes by Anne Bronte

"Well, I can imagine many faces more beautiful than Eliza's, though not more charming. I allow she has small claims to perfection; but then, I maintain that, if she were more perfect, she would be less interesting." ~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad. ~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble the foe. ~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte "I 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." ~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte "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." ~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte "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." ~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte No one can be happy in eternal solitude. ~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte "If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues." ~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte "There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it." ~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte "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." ~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

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