Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte
Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 July 1818
CityWest Yorkshire, England
honesty reality people
Honest people don't hide their deeds.
adventure soul coward
No coward soul is mine.
bending
It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.
should existence notion
I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
heart ugly faces
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.
weather rose snow
...I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow...
soul storm coward
No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere...
fire soul different
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire
gothic heathcliff destruction
I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
rocks delight littles
My love for Heathchiff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
weed moving heart
Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
good-night revenge angel
However , it’s over, and I’ll take no revenge on his folly – I can afford to suffer anything, hereafter! Should the meanest thing alive slap me on the cheek, I’d not only turn the other, but I’d ask pardon for provoking it – and, as proof, I’ll go make my peace with Edgar instantly – Good night – I’m an angel!
mind wish philosopher
Earnsha was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point - one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed - they contrived in the end to reach it.
everyday ashamed know-me
Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.