Anne Bronte Quotes

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!

Anne Bronte

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• When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Reading
  • Name
  • Breathe

• I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Me
  • Half
  • Attended

• Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Humanity
  • Intelligence

• So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, 'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails.' Well at best I've got one of the two of those.

  

  Bono U2
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Law

• I'm the kind of boy that can fall in love with any girl because I love with the heart, not the eyes.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Girl

• I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Character

• People's guards were taken down because there was a new wrinkle. Never, ever give out your PIN number.

  

  Chris Smith
  • People
  • Taken
  • Peoples

• I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Way

• Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Man
  • Life is
  • Intoxication

• Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Encounters
  • Flash
  • Glimpse

• One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy to pour cold water on their enthusiasm; it is easy to discourage others. The world is full of discouragers. We have a Christian duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.

  

  William Barclay
  • Christian
  • Appreciation
  • Cheer

• She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Woman
  • Idea
  • Solution

• I'm often guilty of overcooking and too much arrangement and throwing too much at it. But I think as I get older, I'm learning better when to be empty and when to be full.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Guilty
  • Arrangement
  • Overcooking

• Let us not flutter too high, but remain by the manger and the swaddling clothes of Christ, 'in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.'

  

  Martin Luther
  • Christ
  • Clothes
  • Fullness

• The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Poet
  • Artists
  • Journalist

• Lesley said that my exes knew that past a certain point I’d lost interest, and that’s why they always packed me in first. That’s not the way I remember it, but Lesley swore she could have constructed a calendar based on my love life. A cyclical one, she said, like the Maya – counting down to disaster. Lesley could be surprisingly erudite sometimes.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Interest
  • Disaster
  • I Remember

• Ole man trouble. Go find you someone else to pick on. I live my life now you see. Ole man trouble, Please stay away from me, now. Oh I look like I'm down in my luck. Please send faith to help pick me up. I've lived this way so many years. Ole man trouble, Please wash away all my fears.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I weep flowers, I weep song, I bleed.

  

  Carole Maso
  • Song
  • Flowers
  • Bleed

• How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Distress
  • Tear
  • Weep