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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall quotes about love
I shall expect my husband to have no pleasures but what he shares with me; and if his greatest pleasure of all is not the enjoyment of my company – why – it will be the worse for him – that’s all.”If such are your expectations of matrimony, Esther, you must, indeed, be careful whom you marry – or rather, you must avoid it altogether.
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The rose I gave you was an emblem of myheart, ‘ said she; ‘would you take it away andleave me here alone?’ ‘Would you give me your hand too, if I askedit?’ ‘Have I not said enough?
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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 Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them . . . .
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
There is perfect love in Heaven!
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
. . . you have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
God is Infinite Wisdom, and Power, and Goodness – and LOVE; but if this idea is too vast for your human faculties – if your mind loses itself in its overwhelming infinitude, fix it on Him who condescended to take our nature upon Him, who was raised to Heaven even in His glorified human body, in whom the fulness of the Godhead shines.
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone – there are many, many other things to be considered.
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them; and if such an occasion should never present itself, comfort your mind with this reflection, that though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least, will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but, in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result.
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
And so you prefer her faults to other people’s perfections?
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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