I Know My Own Heart Quotes

“Friday 22 June 1821 [Halifax]

I owe a good deal to this journal. By unburdening my mind on paper I feel, as it were, in some degree to get rid of it; it seems made over to a friend that hears it patiently, keeps it faithfully, and by never forgetting anything, is always ready to compare the past & present and thus to cheer & edify the future.”
― Anne Lister, I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister 1791–1840

“Am certainly attentive to her but cautiously, without any impropriety that could be laid hold of. Yet my manners are certainly peculiar, not all masculine but rather softly gentleman-like. I know how to please girls.”
― Anne Lister, I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840

“What a comfort is this journal. I tell myself to myself and throw the burden on my book and feel relieved.”
― Anne Lister, I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840

“M- cried a little last night & several times asked, 'Can I say nothing to console you?' 'No, my love,' said I, 'nothing human can just now or I am sure you could.”
― Anne Lister, I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840

“M- cried a little last night & several times asked, 'Can I say nothing to console you?' 'No, my love,' said I, 'nothing humans can just now or I am sure you could.”
― Anne Lister, I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840

“She is my wife in honor & in love & why not acknowledge her such openly & at once? I am satisfied to have her mind, & my on, at ease. The chain is golden & shared with M---. I love it better than any liberty.”
― Anne Lister, I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840

“It is heavy work to live without women's society & I would for rather while away an hour with this girl, who has nothing in the world to boast but good humor, than not flirt at all.”
― Anne Lister, I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840