WIST Quotations

Bronte, Emily -- “Love and Friendship” (1839)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

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

Emily Brontë (1818-1848) British novelist, poet [pseud. Ellis Bell]
“Love and Friendship” (1839)

Bronte, Emily -- Wuthering Heights (1847)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Emily Brontë (1818-1848) British novelist, poet [pseud. Ellis Bell]
Wuthering Heights (1847)

Bronte, Emily -- Wuthering Heights, ch. 11 [Heathcliff] (1847)

Dave — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 02:14:55 +0000

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

Emily Brontë (1818-1848) British novelist, poet [pseud. Ellis Bell]
Wuthering Heights, ch. 11 [Heathcliff] (1847)
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Bronte, Emily -- Wuthering Heights, ch. 17 [Isabella Linton] (1847)

Dave — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 02:41:24 +0000

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends — they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

Emily Brontë (1818-1848) British novelist, poet [pseud. Ellis Bell]
Wuthering Heights, ch. 17 [Isabella Linton] (1847)
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Bronte, Emily -- Wuthering Heights, ch. 7 (1847) [Nelly Dean]

Dave — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 01:50:46 +0000

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Emily Brontë (1818-1848) British novelist, poet [pseud. Ellis Bell]
Wuthering Heights, ch. 7 (1847) [Nelly Dean]
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Bronte, Emily -- Wuthering Heights, ch. 7 (1847) [Nelly]

Dave — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 02:15:17 +0000

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.

Emily Brontë (1818-1848) British novelist, poet [pseud. Ellis Bell]
Wuthering Heights, ch. 7 (1847) [Nelly]
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Bronte, Emily -- Wuthering Heights, ch. 7 [Nelly to Heathcliff] (1847)

Dave — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:59:39 +0000

‘A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad,’ I continued, ‘if you were a regular black; and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.’

Emily Brontë (1818-1848) British novelist, poet [pseud. Ellis Bell]
Wuthering Heights, ch. 7 [Nelly to Heathcliff] (1847)

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