Anne Bronte Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza's, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it

  Anne Bronte

  Stars, Fall, Thinking

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.56, ReadHowYouWant.com

• If ever I am a mother I will zealously strive against this crime of over- indulgence. I can hardly give it a milder name when I think of the evils it brings.

  Anne Bronte

  Mother, Thinking, Names

  Anne Bronte (2009). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.367, ReadHowYouWant.com

• The bud, though plucked, would not be withered, only transplanted to a fitter soil to ripen and blow beneath a brighter sun; and though I might not cherish and watch my child's unfolding intellect, he would be snatched away from all the suffering and sins of earth; and my understanding tells me this would be no great evil; but my heart shrinks from the contemplation of such a possibility, and whispers I could not bear to see him die.

  Anne Bronte

  Children, Heart, Blow

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