The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Quotes

“When I feel it my duty to speak an unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, though it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader’s immediate pleasure as well as my own.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“...however little you may value the opinions of those about you—however little you may esteem them as individuals, it is not pleasant to be looked upon as a liar and a hypocrite, to be thought to practise what you abhor, and to encourage the vices you would discountenance, to find your good intentions frustrated, and your hands crippled by your supposed unworthiness, and to bring disgrace on the principles you profess.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“The gentlemen seemed better, but, perhaps, it was because I knew them less - perhaps, because they flattered me; but I did not fall in love with any of them; and, if their attentions pleased me one moment, they provoked me the next, because they put me out of humour with myself, by revealing my vanity and making me fear I was becoming like some of the ladies I so heartily despised.”
― Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“Therefore, Mr. Fergus, if you choose to enter my house as a friend, I will make you welcome, but if not, I must confess, I would rather you kept away”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“I was wearied to death with small talk—nothing wears me out like that. I cannot imagine how they can go on as they do.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“Its easily done," replied he, with a faint smile, bordering on a sneer: "to abuse your friend and knock him on the head, without any assignable cause, and then tell him the deed was not quite correct, but it's no matter whether he pardons it or not.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“It was with an agitated burning heart and brain that I hurried homewards, regardless of that scorching noon-day sun - forgetful of everything but her I had just left.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“If she gives you her heart,' said I, 'you must take it thankfully, and use it well, and not pull it in pieces, and laugh in her face, because she cannot snatch it away.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“And if I,' said she, 'am young in years, I am old in sorrow;”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall