"He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner:……" — Emily Bronte
"He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!"
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Emily Bronte
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145 Quotes by Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte has 145 quotes on this site.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have…
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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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…
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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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Honest people don't hide their deeds.
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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which…
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to…
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest…
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence…
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest…
— Emily Bronte
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I loved Bonny, and I always prayed that God would sneak in there and get a little light in her…
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Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!
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Am I no a bonny fighter?
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet…
— Robert Burns
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I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book.…
— Charlotte Bronte
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You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate,…
— William Shakespeare
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It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once.
— Samuel Beckett
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Me, Polly Garter, under the washing line, giving the breast in the garden to my bonny new baby. Nothing grows…
— Dylan Thomas
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There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, love, remember; and there is pansies, that’s for thoughts... There’s fennel for you, and…
— William Shakespeare
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I like the way you are blokey, we may be miles apart and not yet be together, you call me…
— Beverley Clarke
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That's how I got my name, you know. The Bonny scot, see?
— Bon Scott
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