WIST Quotations

Bronte, Anne -- “A Word to Calvinists” (28 May 1843)

Dave — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 16:51:15 +0000

And, when you, looking on your fellow men
Behold them doomed to endless misery,
How can you talk of joy and rapture then?
May God withhold such cruel joy from me!

Anne Brontë (1820-1849) British novelist, poet [pseud. Acton Bell]
“A Word to Calvinists” (28 May 1843)
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Bronte, Anne -- “A Word to Calvinists” (28 May 1843)

Dave — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 19:51:00 +0000

You may rejoice to think yourselves secure,
You may be grateful for the gift divine,
That grace unsought which made your black hearts pure
And fits your earthborn souls in Heaven to shine.
But is it sweet to look around and view
Thousands excluded from that happiness,
Which they deserve at least as much as you,
Their faults not greater nor their virtues less?

Anne Brontë (1820-1849) British novelist, poet [pseud. Acton Bell]
“A Word to Calvinists” (28 May 1843)
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Bronte, Anne -- “The Narrow Way” (1848)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

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

Anne Brontë (1820-1849) British novelist, poet [pseud. Acton Bell]
“The Narrow Way” (1848)
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Bronte, Anne -- “Views of Life”

Dave — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:44:56 +0000

Because the road is rough and long,
Shall we despise the skylark’s song?

Anne Brontë (1820-1849) British novelist, poet [pseud. Acton Bell]
“Views of Life”

Bronte, Anne -- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, ch. 22 [Helen] (1848)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

There is always a “but” in this imperfect world.

Anne Brontë (1820-1849) British novelist, poet [pseud. Acton Bell]
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, ch. 22 [Helen] (1848)

Bronte, Anne -- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, ch. 32 [Ralph to Milicent] (1848)

Dave — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:55:32 +0000

A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can’t complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.

Anne Brontë (1820-1849) British novelist, poet [pseud. Acton Bell]
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, ch. 32 [Ralph to Milicent] (1848)

Bronte, Anne -- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, ch. 39 “A Scheme of Escape” (1848)

Dave — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:11:27 +0000

God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.

Anne Brontë (1820-1849) British novelist, poet [pseud. Acton Bell]
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, ch. 39 “A Scheme of Escape” (1848)

Bronte, Anne -- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, ch. 7 “The Excursion” [Helen] (1848)

Dave — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 21:00:23 +0000

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

Anne Brontë (1820-1849) British novelist, poet [pseud. Acton Bell]
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, ch. 7 “The Excursion” [Helen] (1848)
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Bronte, Anne -- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Preface (1848)

Dave — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 20:47:48 +0000

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.

Anne Brontë (1820-1849) British novelist, poet [pseud. Acton Bell]
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Preface (1848)
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