Emily Bronte Quotes

• They forgot everything the minute they were together again.

  Emily Bronte

  Topics in Friendship

• I lingered around them, under the benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

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• The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails!

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• He might as well plant an oak in a flower-pot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

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• My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My Love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath—a source of little visible delight but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff.

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• As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

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• I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• Cold in the earth—and the deep snow piled above thee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last by Time’s all-serving wave?

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• No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven’s glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.

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• The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mateless play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We’ll talk its pensive hours away.

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• The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot go.

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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 Bronte

  Topics in Wisdom

• The nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humour

• If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.

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  Topics in Love

• 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 Bronte

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Everybody, Notion
• 

  Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

  Emily Bronte

  Topics in Love, Soul

  Tags in Made, Mine, Whatever

• The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tyrant, Grinds

• 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?

  Emily Bronte

  Topics in Friendship, Love

• Terror made me cruel.

  Emily Bronte

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Terror

• Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

  Emily Bronte

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Proud

Emily Bronte (30)

Birth:	30th July, 1818
Death:	19th December, 1848
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Poet

About

Emily Jane Brontë was born in Thornton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. She was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell.

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