Emily Brontë — Quotes from Author's Books

I’d as soon put that little canary into the park on a winter’s day, as recommend you to bestow your heart on him!

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

The "walk in" was uttered with closed teeth, and expressed the sentiment, "Go to the Deuce".

A stranger is a stranger, be he rich or poor.

Pulling out the nerves with red hot pincers requires more coolness than knocking on the head.

Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?

...and hell shall have his soul! It will be ten times blacker with that guest than ever it was before!

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.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, if you were a regular black; and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Nobody loves you—nobody will cry for you when you die! I wouldn’t be you!

Two words would comprehend my future—death and hell: existence, after losing her, would be hell.

— And if she had been dissolved into earth, or worse, what would you have dreamt of then?’ I said.
— Of dissolving with her.

Incomparably beyond and above us all!

I love papa better than myself, Ellen; and I know it by this: I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be.

It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.