Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
EMILY BRONTEProud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
EMILY BRONTETerror made me cruel.
EMILY BRONTEWorthless as wither’d weeds.
EMILY BRONTEIf I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
EMILY BRONTEEarth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
EMILY BRONTENay, 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 BRONTEYou know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
EMILY BRONTEIt is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
EMILY BRONTEIt 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?
EMILY BRONTEI’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
EMILY BRONTEWhat kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
EMILY BRONTEI 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 BRONTEThoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
EMILY BRONTETreachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
EMILY BRONTEI’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
EMILY BRONTEI 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