“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.”
The quote "If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty yea…" is famous quote by Emily Brontë (1818–1848), English novelist and poet.
Heathcliff (Ch. XIV).
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)
Context: I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine; 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. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that house-trough as her whole affection be monopolized by him. Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse. It is not in him to be loved like me; how can she love in him what he has not?
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English novelist and poet 1818–1848Related quotes
"A Dinner at Poplar Walk" (1833), later published as "Mr. Minns and his Cousin"
Context: There were two classes of created objects which he held in the deepest and most unmingled horror: they were, dogs and children. He was not unamiable, but he could at any time have viewed the execution of a dog, or the assassination of an infant, with the liveliest satisfaction. Their habits were at variance with his love of order; and his love of order, was as powerful as his love of life.
Source: Philosophie der Erlösung, Erster Band (2014), Metaphysik, § 21 ISBN 978-1494963262
He Went to Paris
Song lyrics, A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean (1973)