Emily Bronte Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte Famous Quotes & Sayings
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So foes persue, and cold allies
mistrust me, every one:
let me be false in others' eyes
if faithful in my own
mistrust me, every one:
let me be false in others' eyes
if faithful in my own
We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I'll stay. If he shot me so, I'd expire with a blessing on my lips.
By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
Come in! come in !' he sobbed.
'Cathy, do come. Oh do -once more! Oh! my heart's darling! hear me this time - Catherine, at last!
'Cathy, do come. Oh do -once more! Oh! my heart's darling! hear me this time - Catherine, at last!
He fixed his eye on me longer than I cared to return the stare, for fear I might be tempted either to box his ears, or render my hilarity audible.
He's not a rough diamond - a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic; he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man.
Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
The young man evidently thought it too bad that he should be laughed at for his ignorance, and then laughed at for trying to remove it.
What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day.
Is Heathcliff not here?' she demanded, pulling off her gloves, and displaying fingers wonderfully whitened with doing nothing and staying indoors.
I wish I were out of doors - I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free ... and laughing at injuries,not maddening under them!
Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
I have a good many books on hand, but I am sorry to say that as usual I make small progress with any.
You shall not leave me in that temper.
I should be miserable all night, and I won't be miserable for you!
I should be miserable all night, and I won't be miserable for you!
You are welcome to torture me to death for your amusement, only allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style.
You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles.
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
But there's this difference; one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver.
You are my son, then, I'll tell you' and your mother was a wicked slut to leave you in ignorance of the sort of father you possessed.
I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
You have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be anxious to conceal them?
I have a right to kiss her, if she chooses, and you have no right to object! I am not your husband, you needn't be jealous of me!
You fight against that devil for love as long as you may; when the time comes, not all the angels in heaven shall save him!
He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows
Mr. Heathcliff, you're a cruel man, but you're not a fiend; and you won't, from mere malice, destroy, irrevocably, all my happiness.
Wuthering being a significant, provincial adjective descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.
It was a strange way of killing, not by inches, but by fractions of hairbreadths, to beguile me with the spectre of a hope, through eighteen years!
Incomparably beyond, and above us all! Whether still on earth or now in heaven her spirit is at home with God!
I can say with sincerity that I like cats ... A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
He possessed the power to depart, as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten.
Now all is dashed wrong; by the fool's craving to hear evil of self, that haunts some people like a demon!
I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I only do it, at last. I hope he will not die before I do!
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!