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Emily Bronte Quotes

Emily Bronte quotes

English Novelist July 30, 1818 – December 19, 1848

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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate. Emily Bronte
The most ordinary faces of men, and women? my own features mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her Emily Bronte
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 angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy. Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte quote: "I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and..."
I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte quote: "If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and..."
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte quote: "A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o..."
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 Bronte
You talk of her mind being unsettled. How the devil could it be otherwise in her frightful isolation? And that insipid, paltry creature attending her from duty and humanity ! From pity and charity ! 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! Emily Bronte
The guest was now the master of Wuthering Heights: he held firm possession, and proved to the attorney, who, in his turn, proved it to Mr. Linton, that Earnshaw had mortaged every yard of land he owned for cash to supply his mania for gaming; and he, Heathcliff, was the mortgagee.In that manner, Hareton, who should now be the first gentleman in the neighbourhood, was reduced to a state of complete dependence on his father's inveterate enemy; and lives in his own house as a servant deprived of... Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte quote: "People feel with their hearts, Ellen: and since he has..."
People feel with their hearts, Ellen: and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him. Emily Bronte
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 teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain. Emily Bronte
The subjects had, indeed, risen vividly on my mind. As I saw them with the spiritual eye, before I attempted to embody them, they were striking; but my hand would not second my fancy, and in each case it had wrought out but a pale portrait of the thing I had conceived. Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte quote: "Two words would comprehend my future -- death and hell: ..."
Two words would comprehend my future -- death and hell: existence, after losing her, would be hell. Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte quote: "Incomparably beyond, and above us all! Whether still on earth..."
Incomparably beyond, and above us all! Whether still on earth or now in heaven her spirit is at home with God! Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte quote: "She burned too bright for this world." ~ Nelly to Cathy about..."
She burned too bright for this world." ~ Nelly to Cathy about her late mother in "Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte quote: "I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he..."
I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives. Emily Bronte

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