Bronte Sisters: Anne, Charlotte and Emily
Charlotte, Emily and Anne were well-known poets and novelists of the 19th Century.
As custom practised by female authors at that time, Charlotte, Emily and Anne published their works using musculine pen names Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell respectively.
Sisterly Quotes
“But he who dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.”
– Anne Bronte
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“If you would have your son to walk honorably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them – not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.”
~ Anne Bronte
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He that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.
– Anne Bronte
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“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
– Anne Bronte
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Life, believe, is not the dream
So dark, as sages say;
Oft a little morning rain
Foretells a pleasant day.
– Anne Bronte
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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
– Charlotte Bronte
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I would rather undergo the greatest bodily pains than have my heart constantly lacerated b searing regrets.
– Charlotte Bronte
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
– Charlotte
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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
– Emily Bronte
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
– Emily Bronte
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
– Emily Bronte
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.
~Emily Bronte
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
~Emily Brontë