“I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head, they having been so long occupied with the contemplation of a single object as to become almost incapable of forming a proper idea respecting it.' 'That,' replied I, 'is only one of many evils to which a solitary life exposes us.” EvilSolitudeJudgmentVain Hopes Book:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“when we have to do with vice and vicious characters, I maintain it is better to depict them as they really are than as they would wish to appear.” WisdomEvilWiseHonestySmartVicious Book:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil (which some have doubted), no one will deny that excess is a greater. Some parents have entirely prohibited their children from tasting intoxicating liquors; but a parent’s authority cannot last for ever; children are naturally prone to hanker after forbidden things; and a child, in such a case, would be likely to have a strong curiosity to taste, and try the effect of what has been so lauded and enjoyed by others, so strictly forbidden to himself – which curiosity would generally be gratified on the first convenient opportunity; and the restraint once broken, serious consequences might ensue.” ChildrenEvilParentsControlExcessModerationUpbringingTemperanceAbstinence Author:Anne Brontë