Quotes by Patrick Brontë

“I have no objection whatever to your representing me as a eccentric, since you and your learned friends would have it so; only don't set me on in my fury to burning hearthrugs, sawing the backs off chairs, and tearing my wife's silk gowns... Had I been numbered amongst the calm, men of the world, I should not have been as I now am, and I should in all probability never have had such children as mine have been.””

“Backward I look upon my life,And see one waste of storm and strife,One wrack of sorrows, hopes, and pain,Vanishing to arise again!That life has moved through evening, whereContinual shadows veiled my sphere;From youth's horizon upward rolledTo life's meridian, dark and cold.””

“Fortune, how fickle and how vain thou art,””

“I sit, this evening, far away,From all I used to know,And nought reminds my soul to-dayOf happy long ago.Unwelcome cares, unthought-of fears,Around my room arise;I seek for suns of former yearsBut clouds o'ercast my skies.Yes”