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
people company knows
It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
people greed world
It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
people mind sorrow
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
people hatred soul
He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.
people forgiving wicked
It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
pride people sorrow
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
honesty reality people
Honest people don't hide their deeds.
altered changed colour dreams dreamt english-novelist gone life stayed wine
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.
agony begins brain check dreadful ear eye flesh intense pulse soul
Oh! dreadful is the check - intense the agony - / When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; / When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again; / The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.
believe comfort cry eye foot good happened meant might oblige quiet seldom slip sweetest
A wild, wick slip she was - but, she had the bonniest eye and sweetest smile, and lightest foot in the parish: and, after all, I believe she meant no harm; for when once she made you cry in good earnest, it seldom happened that she would not keep you company, and oblige you to be quiet that you might comfort her.
above cold deep dreary earth snow
Cold in the earth - and the deep snow piled above thee, / Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave!
believe cannot drive form ghosts haunt leave wandered
You said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!
beneath eternal love mind pleasure resembles rocks source visible
...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 then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being...
coward coward-and-cowardice faith fear glories shines soul
No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere; I see Heaven's glories shine, And, Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear