quotes about Heathcliff

“Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.”

“If Allah wants for a people ill, he gives them debates and takes away from them actions.”

“Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.”

“I used to work the graveyard shift.”

“You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.”

“Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.”

“But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.”

Source : Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

“Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.”

“There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.”

“A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.”

Source : Taylor Caldwell (2017). “The Devil's Advocate: The Epic Novel of One Man's Fight to Save America from Tyranny”, p.292, Open Road Media