441 Quotes by Emily Brontë

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We'll talk its pensive hours away.

Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.

I 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.

Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper!

I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.

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

She went of her own accord,' answered the master; 'she has a right to go if she please. Trouble me no more about her. Hereafter she is only me sister in name: not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.