Emily Bronte Quotes

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

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

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.

I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.

You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.

Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!

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.

In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.

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