Wuthering Heights Quotes

“He's such a cobweb, a pinch would annihilate him.”

“You are worse than twenty foes, you poisonous friend!”

“Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.”

“ Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”

“No, I'm running on too fast: I bestow my own attributes over-liberally on him.”

“Rough as a saw-edge, and hard as whinstone! The less you meddle with him the better.”

“His brightening mind brightened his features, and added spirit and nobility to their aspect.”

“Oh, if God would but give me strength to strangle him in my last agony, I'd go to hell with joy.”

“If thou weren't more a lass than a lad, I'd fell thee this minute, I would; pitiful lath of a crater!”

“I have such faith in Linton's love that I believe I might kill him, and he wouldn't wish to retaliate.”

“I assure you, a tiger, or a venomous serpent could not rouse terror in me equal to that which he wakens.”

“Wikipedia: Wuthering Heights”

“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.”

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

“Wuthering Heights at the British Library”

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“"They are afraid of nothing," I grumbled, watching their approach through the window. "Together they would brave Satan and all his legions."”

“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.”

“I've done no injustice, and I repent of nothing. I'm too happy, and yet I'm not happy enough. My soul's bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.”

“Read Wuthering Heights when you’re 18 and you think Heathcliff is a romantic hero; when you’re 30, he’s a monster; at 50 you see he’s just human.”