Emily Bronte Quotes

• "A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly."
• "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."
• "Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living."
• "Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home."
• "I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself."
• "I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."
• "I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal."
• "I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after."
• "If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results."
• "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?"
• "My love for Heathchiff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary."
• "Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."
• "The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them."
• "Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main."
• "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."