I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
EMILY BRONTEProud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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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.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
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No coward soul is mine.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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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!
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I cannot love thee; thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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Terror made me cruel.
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It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
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