Quotes from Emily Bronte

I shall not stand to be laughed at. I shall not bear it!

I wish I were out of doors - I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing at injuries,not maddening under them!

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

Being repulsed continually hardened her.

I have dreamt 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.

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.

I reject any pretence at kindness you have the hypocrisy to offer.

You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled!

You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into...it is as much as you can expect from a poor man's daughter.

You forget you have a master here,'' says the tyrant. ''I'll demolish the first who puts me out of temper! I insist on perfect sobriety and silence. Oh, boy! was that you? Frances, darling, pull his hair as you go by; I heard him snap his fingers.'' 'Frances pulled his hair heartily;

Living among clowns and misanthropists, she probably cannot appreciate a better class of people when she meets them.

In that manner Hareton, who should now be the first gentleman in the neighbourhood, was reduced to a state of complete dependence on his father's inveterate enemy; and lives in his own house as a servant, deprived of the advantage of wages: quite unable to right himself, because of his friendlessness, and his ignorance that he has been wronged.