Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
EMILY BRONTEBy this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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