Wuthering Heights

By

Emily Bronte

QUOTATION: Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
ATTRIBUTION: Emily Brontë (1818–1848), British novelist, poet. Nelly, in Wuthering Heights, ch. 7 (1847).

QUOTATION: Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
ATTRIBUTION: Emily Brontë (1818–1848), British novelist, poet. Ellen Dean, in Wuthering Heights, ch. 13 (1847).

QUOTATION: The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
ATTRIBUTION: Emily Brontë (1818–1848), British novelist, poet. Heathcliff, in Wuthering Heights, ch. 11 (1847).

QUOTATION: Having levelled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
ATTRIBUTION: Emily Brontë (1818–1848), British novelist, poet. Catherine, in Wuthering Heights, ch. 11 (1847).

QUOTATION: 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.
ATTRIBUTION: Emily Brontë (1818–1848), British novelist, poet. Mr. Lockwood, in Wuthering Heights, ch. 3 (1847).

QUOTATION: 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.
ATTRIBUTION: Emily Brontë (1818–1848), British novelist, poet. Nelly, in Wuthering Heights, ch. 7 (1847).

QUOTATION: If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. I should not seem a part of it.... My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath—a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff—he’s always, always in my mind—not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself—but as my own being.
ATTRIBUTION: Emily Brontë (1818–1848), British novelist, poet. Catherine, in Wuthering Heights, ch. 9 (1847).