Anne Bronte Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

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

  Anne Bronte

  Courage, Flower, Rose

  Anne Brontë, “The Narrow Way”

• To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals.

  Anne Bronte

  Sweet, Fear, Regret

  "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Ch. XLV : Reconciliation; Helen to Gilbert. Book by Anne Bronte, 1848.

• To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is it the most honest, or the safest? Is it better to reveal the snares and pitfalls of like to the young and thoughtless traveller, or to cover them with branches and flowers? Oh, reader! if there were less of this delicate concealment of facts--this whispering "Peace, peace," when there is no peace, there would be less of sin and misery to the young of both sexes who are left to wring their bitter knowledge from experience.

  Anne Bronte

  Sex, Flower, Light

  Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte (2014). “The Complete Novels Of The Bronte Sisters: Seven-Book Bundle”, p.244, Harper Collins

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