Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte Quotes

#1. I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.

Bill Bryson

#2. Winter is not here yet. There's a little flower, up yonder, the last bud from the multitude of bluebells that clouded those turf steps in July with a lilac mist. Will you clamber up and pluck it to show papa?

Emily Bronte

#3. Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.

Emily Bronte

#4. Everyone has his reasons.

Jean Renoir

#5. We have each had a commencement, and each stumbled and tottered on the threshold, and had our teachers scorned, instead of aiding us, we should stumble and totter yet.

Emily Bronte

#6. I'm not going to act the lady among you, for fear I should starve .

Emily Bronte

#7. Was it boredom or sadism that made the shirt service people do up every single button?

Ian McEwan

#8. Enclosed within the tyranny of our minds and there is where we are lost.

Robert Dodson

#9. Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.

Emily Bronte

#10. We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.

Mitchell Baker

#11. It is very easy to point fingers at others sitting at home, but very difficult to play the game.

Misbah-ul-Haq

#12. Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

Emily Bronte

#13. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.

Emily Bronte

#14. Their eyes are precisely similar, and they are those of Catherine Earnshaw.

Emily Bronte

#15. And I pray one prayer
I repeat it till my tongue stiffens
Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you
haunt me, then! ... Be with me always
take any form
drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!

Emily Bronte

#16. It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.

Emily Bronte

#17. They made a science out of people?" she said. "What a crazy science that must be."
"Mr. Z

Kurt Vonnegut

#18. 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

#19. Some people are very unfulfilled. In consequence they write passionately good romance because they believe that they could still find happiness. Emily Bronte was not a fulfilled woman but the passion she felt went into Wuthering Heights.

Charlotte Bingham

#20. He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

Emily Bronte

#21. Heathcliff, make the world stop right here. Make everything stop and stand still and never move again. Make the moors never change and you and I never change.

Emily Bronte

#22. Sing as though you're summoning the heavens; silver your voice and bare your throat.

Roshani Chokshi

#23. The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.

Kenneth Hare

#24. I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.

Marlon Brando

#25. Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is.

Charlotte Bronte

#26. I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

Rob Zombie