"Agnes Grey" Quotes
A young governess navigates the challenges of working for difficult and unruly children while seeking to maintain her own dignity and integrity.
classics | 251 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
I would not send a poor girl into the world, unarmed against her foes, and ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.
But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.
The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than anyone can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.
I would not have opened my heart to you if I had known that I was only to be a friend.
There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.
I have no horror of it.
I am not an angel, and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
I could not be happy without it.
I now looked forward to a new kind of existence.
But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do.
