441 Quotes by Emily Brontë

No parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk

I’ll walk, but not in old heroic traces,And not in paths of high morality,And not among the half-distinguished faces,The clouded forms of long-past history.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.

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.

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

No coward soul is mine,No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:I see heaven's glories shine,And faith shines equal, arming me from fear

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

Terror made me cruel . . .

Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

Nelly, there is a strange change approaching; I'm in its shadow at present. I take so little interest in my daily life that I hardly remember to eat and drink.