"You couldn't have given me less encouragement, or treated me with greater severity than you did! And if you think you have wronged me by giving me your friendship, and occasionally admitting to me to the enjoyment of your company and conversation, when all hopes of close intimacy were vain — as indeed you always gave me to understand — if you think you have wronged me by this, you are mistaken; for such favours, in themselves alone, are not only delightful to my heart, but purifying, exalting, ennobling to my soul; and I would rather have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world!"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Novelists from EnglandPoets from EnglandAnglicans from the United KingdomWomen authors from EnglandWomen born in the 19th century
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Ch. XII : A Tête-à-tête and a Discovery; Gilbert to Helen
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anne_Bront%C3%AB
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Anne Brontë
141 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Anne Brontë →
Related Quotes
"To my thinking, a woman's religion ought not to lessen her devotion to her earthly lord. She should have enough to pu…"
"What can't be cured must be endured."
"I wish I could see how the ocean is lashing The foam of its billows to whirlwinds of spray; I wish I could see how it…"
"All for myself the sigh would swell, The tear of anguish start; I little knew what wilder woe Had filled the Poet's h…"
"Yet, should thy darkest fears be true, If Heaven be so severe, That such a soul as thine is lost, Oh! how shall I app…"
"My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze; For above and around me the w…"
"I have no horror of death: if I thought it inevitable I think I could quietly resign myself to the prospect ... But I…"
"You may rejoice to think yourselves secure, You may be grateful for the gift divine, That grace unsought which made y…"
"Say does your heart expand to all mankind And would you ever to your neighbour do, — The weak, the strong, the enligh…"
"At your time of life, it's love that rules the roast: at mine, it's solid, serviceable gold."