Quote

By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.

Emily Bronte

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Emily Bronte
Age: 30 †
Born: 1818
Born: July 30
Died: 1848
Died: December 19
Novelist
Poet
Thornton
West Yorkshire
Ellis Bell
Emily Jane Brontë
Aimili Bolangte
Emili Bronte
Emily Jane Bronte
Ai-mi-li Po-lang-tʻe
Ėmilii︠a︡ Bronte
エ ミ リ ー ブ ロ ン テ
Disposition
Reputation
Curious
Appreciate
Heartlessness
Turn
Undeserved
Alone
Gained
Turns
Deliberate

More quotes by Emily Bronte

Image
Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
Emily Bronte
Image
I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
Emily Bronte
Image
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
Emily Bronte
Image
You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
Emily Bronte
Image
My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
Emily Bronte
Image
Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
Emily Bronte
Image
He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!
Emily Bronte
Image
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
Emily Bronte
Image
What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
Emily Bronte
Image
If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
Emily Bronte
Image
Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper!
Emily Bronte
Image
Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
Emily Bronte
Image
But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing.
Emily Bronte
Image
I'll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
Emily Bronte
Image
I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
Emily Bronte
Image
It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.
Emily Bronte
Image
wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
Emily Bronte
Image
The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again
Emily Bronte
Image
Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!' he said. 'It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!
Emily Bronte
Image
Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
Emily Bronte