Quotes from Emily Bronte

Why canst thou not always be a good lass, Cathy?' And she turned her face up to his, and laughed, and answered - 'Why cannot you always be a good man, father?

No books!' I exclaimed. 'How do you contrive to live here without them? if I may take the liberty to inquire. Though provided with a large library, I'm frequently very dull at the Grange; take my books away, and I should be desperate!

Os orgulhosos provocam suas próprias tristezas.

you have left me so long to struggle against death alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

Depois de deitar por terra o meu palácio, não erga uma cabana só para admirar a sua própria benevolência ao me oferecer abrigo.

He little imagined how

De lo que sea que nuestras almas estén hechas; la suya y la mía son lo mismo.

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

It is not in him to be loved like me: how can she love in him what he has not?

I cannot express it; but surely you and every body have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation if I were entirely contained here?

There's nobbut t' missis; and shoo'll not oppen 't an ye mak' yer flaysome dins till neeght.

I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears: she understood me at last, and looked a return - the sweetest of all imaginable looks.

Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling.  'Wuthering' being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.

Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers, From those brown hills, have melted into spring.

I was only going to say that 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 Wurthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.

I'll not do anything, though you should swear your tongue out, except what I please!

What vain weather-cocks we are!

My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning; my great thought in living is himself.

ništa ju nije uzrujalo više od insinuacije da vjernost i obzirnost, duga patnja i nježnost povezane s ljubavlju, cijenjene vrline Evinih k?eri, postaju mane u Adamovih sinova.

This is certainly a beautiful country!  In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. 

Pa ni prva junakinja tog imena [Catherine] nije bez odre?ene ?udne ljepote u svojem divljaštvu, niti je nepoštena usred izopa?ene strasti i strastvene izopa?enosti.

It is so strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world!

Wuthering' being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.

Moja draga majka znala je govoriti da nikada ne?u na?i udoban dom, i ve? prošlog ljeta dokazao sam sebi da ga uop?e nisam dostojan.