All Emily Bronte Quotes
- I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought… Brought
- Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee. Alone
- By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate. Alone
- Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so… Angel
- Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn, And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished with the morn.… All
- I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the… Among
- And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could… Anguish
- Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies. Both
- It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don’t let me… Answered
- If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable." "Because you are not fit to go there," I answered. "All sinners would be… All
- 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… Alive
- Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me. Disown
- I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat! Beat
- The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one. All
- You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles. Been
- She burned too bright for this world. Bright
- Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing… Burning
- A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. Company
- The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy… Arm
- If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave. Ever Looked
- No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere... Coward
- Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he love with all… Affection
- I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral… Crush
- Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I'll stay. If he shot me so, I'd expire with a blessing on my lips. Blessing
- He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again. Cover