Emily Brontë citations (169 citations, Page 5)

1801.
1801 — I have just returned from a visit to my landlord — the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. 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. A perfect misanthropist's Heaven — and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us.
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Les Hauts de Hurlevent (1847)

pays , vérité

“Mes grandes souffrances dans ce monde ont été les souffrances de Heathcliff, je les ai toutes guettées et ressenties dès leur origine.”

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Wuthering Heights

Souffrance

“Je sais, par instinct, que sa réserve provient d'une aversion pour les étalages de sentiment… Pour les manifestations d'amabilité réciproque. Il aimera, comme il haïra, sans en rien laisser paraître, il regardera comme une sorte d'impertinence l'amour ou la haine qu'il recevra en retour.”

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“Je lui ai donné mon cœur, il l’a pris, l’a broyé et me l’a rejeté mort. C’est avec le cœur qu’on sent, Hélène ; puisqu’il a détruit le mien, je n’ai plus le pouvoir de rien ressentir pour lui.”

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Wuthering Heights

“Je voyais qu'il étaient remplis d'une admiration stupide : elle est si démesurément supérieure à eux… à n'importe qui sur terre, n'est-ce pas?”

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Les Hauts de Hurlevent, d'Emily Brontë. Volume 1

Emily Brontë: Citations en anglais

“No, I’m running on too fast: I bestow my own attributes over-liberally on him.”

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Mr. Lockwood on Heathcliff (Ch. I).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

“His brightening mind brightened his features, and added spirit and nobility to their aspect.”

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Nelly Dean on Hareton (Ch. XXXIII).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

“Oh, if God would but give me strength to strangle him in my last agony, I’d go to hell with joy.”

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Hindley Earnshaw (Ch. XVII).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

“I've done no injustice, and I repent of nothing. I'm too happy, and yet I'm not happy enough. My soul's bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.”

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Heathcliff (Ch. XXXIV).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

“What vain weathercocks we are! I, who had determined to hold myself independent of all social intercourse, and thanked my stars that at length I had lighted on a spot where it was next to impracticable. I, weak wretch, after maintaining till dusk a struggle with low spirits and solitude, was finally compelled to strike my colours; and under pretence of gaining information concerning the necessities of my establishment, I desired Mrs. Dean.”

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Mr. Lockwood (Ch. IV).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

“The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.”

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Heathcliff (Ch. XI).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

“A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad", I continued, "if you were a regular black, and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.”

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Nelly Dean (Ch. VII).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

“But when the days of golden dreams had perished,
And even Despair was powerless to destroy;
Then did I learn how existence could be cherished,
Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy.”

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Remembrance (1846)

“Reason, indeed, may oft complain
For Nature's sad reality,
And tell the suffering heart, how vain
Its cherished dreams must always be;
And Truth may rudely trample down
The flowers of Fancy, newly-blown:”

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To Imagination (1846)

“Yes, as my swift days near their goal
'Tis all that I implore
In life and death a chainless soul
With courage to endure”

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The Old Stoic (1846)

“I assure you, a tiger, or a venomous serpent could not rouse terror in me equal to that which he wakens.”

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Isabella Linton on Heathcliff (Ch. XIII).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

“The winter wind is loud and wild,
Come close to me, my darling child;
Forsake thy books, and mateless play;
And, while the night is gathering grey,
We'll talk its pensive hours away;”

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Faith and Despondency (1846)

“The boy was fully occupied with his own cogitations for the remainder of the ride, till we halted before the farmhouse garden gate. I watched to catch his impressions in his countenance. He surveyed the carved front and low-browed lattices, the straggling gooseberry bushes, and crooked firs, with solemn intentness, and then shook his head; his private feelings entirely disapproved of the exterior of his new abode. But he had sense to postpone complaining — there might be compensation within.”

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Nelly Dean (Ch. XX).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

“I went to hide little Hareton, and to take the shot out of the master’s fowling-piece, which he was fond of playing with in his insane excitement, to the hazard of the lives of any who provoked, or even attracted his notice too much; and I had hit upon the plan of removing it, that he might do less mischief if he did go the length of firing the gun.”

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Nelly Dean (Ch. VIII).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

“He comes with western winds, with evening's wandering airs,
With that clear dusk of heaven that brings the thickest stars;
Winds take a pensive tone and stars a tender fire
And visions rise and change which kill me with desire.”

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The Prisoner (October 1845)

“My walk home was lengthened by a diversion in the direction of the kirk. When beneath its walls, I perceived decay had made progress, even in seven months - many a window showed black gaps deprived of glass; and slates jutted off, here and there, beyond the right line of the roof, to be gradually worked off in coming autumn storms.

I sought, and soon discovered, the three head-stones on the slope next the moor - the middle one, gray, and half buried in heath - Edgar Linton's only harmonized by the turf and moss, creeping up its foot - Heathcliff's still bare.

I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.”

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Mr. Lockwood (Ch. XXXIV). (Closing lines).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

“I shouldn’t care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn’t you suffer? I do! Will you forget me — will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say, twenty years hence, “That’s the grave of Catherine Earnshaw. I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I’ve loved many others since — my children are dearer to me than she was, and, at death, I shall not rejoice that I am going to her, I shall be sorry that I must leave them!””

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Will you say so, Heathcliff?
Catherine Earnshaw (Ch. XV).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

“I trust not to thy phantom bliss,
Yet, still, in evening's quiet hour,
With never-failing thankfulness,
I welcome thee, Benignant Power;
Sure solacer of human cares,
And sweeter hope, when hope despairs!”

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To Imagination (1846)

“I have such faith in Linton's love that I believe I might kill him, and he wouldn't wish to retaliate.”

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Catherine Earnshaw (Ch. X).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

“You are welcome to torture me to death for your amusement; only allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style. And refrain from insult as much as you are able. Having levelled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home. If I imagined you really wished me to marry Isabel, I'd cut my throat!”

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Heathcliff (Ch. XI).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

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

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Nelly Dean (Ch. XIII).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

“The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I’m tired, tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.”

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Catherine Earnshaw (Ch. XV).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

“Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!”

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he said. "It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God, Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!"
Heathcliff (Ch. XI).
Wuthering Heights (1847)