Emily Bronte quotes
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“He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.”
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“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.”
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“Honest people don't hide their deeds.”
-- Emily BronteSource : Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com
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“If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.”
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“I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.”
-- Emily BronteSource : Emily Bronte, Annabella Bloom (2010). “Wuthering Heights: The Wild and Wanton Edition”, p.128, Adams Media
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“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
-- Emily BronteSource : Wuthering Heights ch. 9 (1847)
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“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
-- Emily BronteSource : Emily Bronte, “Fall, Leaves, Fall”
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“My love for Heathchiff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.”
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“Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.”
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“Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.”
-- Emily BronteSource : Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.492, Penguin
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“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
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“No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere...”
-- Emily BronteSource : "Last Lines" l. 1 (1846)
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“I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.”
-- Emily BronteSource : Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com
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“I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
-- Emily BronteSource : Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.387, Penguin
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“You're hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content.”
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“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.”
-- Emily BronteSource : Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com
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“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”
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“It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.”
-- Emily BronteSource : Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.433, Penguin
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“Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.”
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“I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.”
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“I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.”
-- Emily BronteSource : Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.211, The Floating Press
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