29 Emily Brontë Quotes (WUTHERING HEIGHTS)

Top 10 Most Famous Emily Bronte Quotes (BEST)

“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.”
Emily Bronte

If I could, I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.

Be with me always — take any form — drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!

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?

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

I will walk where my own nature would be leading. — I will walk where my own **nature** would be leading.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

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. — 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.

10 Emily Bronte Quotes About Life

“Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.”
Emily Bronte

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after. — I’ve dreamt in my life **dreams** that have stayed with me ever after.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

I have to remind myself to breathe - almost to remind my heart to beat! — I have to remind myself to **breathe** – almost to remind my heart to beat!

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.

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.

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

I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.

9 Emily Bronte Quotes About Love

“I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.”
Emily Bronte

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. — I **love** the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says.

I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together. — I **love** all his looks, and all his **actions** and him entirely and all together.

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. — 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.

He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself than I am. — He shall never know I **love** him: and that, not because he’s handsome, but because he’s more myself than I am.

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. — I have not broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

You loved me — then what right had you to leave me?

“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.”
Emily Bronte