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Emily Bronte Quotes

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

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

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

I have dreamed 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.

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Terror made me cruel.

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

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.