Quotes by Emily Bronte

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.
– Emily Bronte
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.
– Emily Bronte
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
– Emily Bronte
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
– Emily Bronte
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.
– Emily Bronte
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.
– Emily Bronte
I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.
– Emily Bronte
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
– Emily Bronte
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
– Emily Bronte
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?
– Emily Bronte
My love for Heathchiff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
– Emily Bronte
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
– Emily Bronte
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
– Emily Bronte
Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
– Emily Bronte
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
– Emily Bronte
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
– Emily Bronte