Anne Bronte Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.

  Anne Bronte

  Good Night, Dream, Eye

  Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Jane Bronte (2012). “The Bronte Sisters: Selected Poems”, p.110, Routledge

• Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.

  Anne Bronte

  Betrayal, Eye, Heart

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.150, Diversion Books

• Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

  Anne Bronte

  Tired, Heart, Eye

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.169, The Floating Press

• A little girl loves her bird--Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is equally helpless and harmless; but though she would not hurt a toad, she cannot love it like the bird, with its graceful form, soft feathers, and bright, speaking eyes.

  Anne Bronte

  Girl, Hurt, Eye

  Anne Bronte (2012). “Agnes Grey”, p.107, Courier Corporation

• Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and then you feel them too; and perhaps resent the injury by crushing them in till you have destroyed their power, though somewhat to the detriment of your own fingers.

  Anne Bronte

  Crush, Eye, Rose

• I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour in the eyes of those whose opinion was more than that of all the world to me.

  Anne Bronte

  Adversity, Eye, World

  Anne Bronte (2012). “Agnes Grey”, p.38, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  Anne Bronte

  Heart, Eye, Soul

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.111, Diversion Books

• You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too.

  Anne Bronte

  Mother, Character, Eye

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.197, Diversion Books

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