Quotes by Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë

British writer, poet

Lived from: 1818 - 1848

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 30 july 1818 Died: 19 december 1848

  • 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.
  • Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
  • The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

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  • 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.
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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 the other half undone.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
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  • Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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  • Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
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  • He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
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  • How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • I have no pity! I have no pity! The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails!
    Wuthering Heights (1847) Ch. XIV
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  • I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
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  • I have to remind myself to breathe - almost to remind my heart to beat!
    Wuthering Heights (1847) Ch. XXXIII
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  • I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...
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  • I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
    Wuthering Heights (1847) Ch. XII)
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  • If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
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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 will bloom most constantly?
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  • Only do not leave me in this abyss where I can not find you!
    Wuthering Heights (1847) Ch. XVI
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  • Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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  • She burned too bright for this world.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
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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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  • Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
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What are the most famous quotes from Emily Brontë?

The two most famous quotes from Emily Brontë are:

  • "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."

When did Emily Brontë live?

Emily Brontë was born in 1818 and died in the year 1848.