Anne Bronte Quotes


Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?' 'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.


Citations

Brontë, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. T. C. Newby, 1848.

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Anne Bronte
Anne Bronte
  • Born: January 17, 1820
  • Died: May 28, 1849
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Poet, Novelist, Governess

Anne Brontë was an English novelist and poet, and the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.