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
lying fall drunk
He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.
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...
running work sleep
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.
pride people sorrow
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
ties stronger would-be
He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
life clouds effort
If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
care please hard
You're hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content.
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.
running selfish long
We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
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.
bending
It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.
strange hated loving-me
How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
honesty reality people
Honest people don't hide their deeds.