Ellen "Nelly" Dean Quotes

“Honest people don’t hide their deeds.”

“You shouldn’t lie till ten. There’s the very prime of the morning gone long before that time. A person who has not done one-half his day’s work by ten o’clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”

“Time brought resignation, and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.”

“It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.”