Wuthering Heights Quotes
"A perfect misanthropist's Heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us."
"The ‘walk in’ was uttered with closed teeth, and expressed the sentiment, ‘Go to the Deuce.’"
"Joseph was an elderly, nay, an old man: very old, perhaps, though hale and sinewy."
"Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind."
"He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows."
"I flung her back, and hastened to interpose the table between us."
"You might as well leave a stranger with a brood of tigers!"
"I'll never let you in, not if you beg for twenty years."
"Seventy times seven times have I plucked up my hat and been about to depart."
"He had grown sparer, and lost his colour, and spoke and dressed quite differently."
"He was not insolent to his benefactor, he was simply insensible."
"Cathy and Heathcliff were now very thick; but Hindley hated him."
"Cathy stayed at Thrushcross Grange five weeks: till Christmas."
"She was not one that would have disturbed the house much on her own account."
"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."
"I am trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last."
"It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive."
"A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad."
"I love him more than ever you loved Edgar, and he might love me, if you would let him!"
"I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches, and every word he says."
"My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary."
"I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being."
"I've fought through a bitter life since I last heard your voice; and you must forgive me, for I struggled only for you!"
"It is a moral teething; and I grind with greater energy in proportion to the increase of pain."
"I never would have banished him from her society as long as she desired his."
"I would not strike him with my fist, but I'd kick him with my foot."
"You fight against that devil for love as long as you may."
"Oh, if I were but in my own bed in the old house!"
"My history is dree, as we say, and will serve to while away another morning."
"The flash of her eyes had been succeeded by a dreamy and melancholy softness; they no longer gave the impression of looking at the objects around her: they appeared always to gaze beyond, and far beyond."
"A book lay spread on the sill before her, and the scarcely perceptible wind fluttered its leaves at intervals."
"Her present countenance had a wild vindictiveness in its white cheek, and a bloodless lip and scintillating eye."
"You have killed me—and thriven on it, I think. How strong you are! How many years do you mean to live after I am gone?"
"I wish I could hold you till we were both dead! I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings."
"I'm not wishing you greater torment than I have, Heathcliff. I only wish us never to be parted."
"May she wake in torment! [...] I CANNOT live without my soul!"
"Her life closed in a gentle dream—may she wake as kindly in the other world!"
"And so ye've been murthering on him? [...] May the Lord—"
"I'd rather he'd kill himself! He has extinguished my love effectually, and so I'm at my ease."
"It's well people don't REALLY rise from their grave, or, last night, she might have witnessed a repulsive scene!"
"If God afflict your enemies, surely that ought to suffice you. It is both mean and presumptuous to add your torture to his!"
"I'm afraid, Ellen, you'll set me down as really wicked; but you don't know all, so don't judge."
"He's as young, but he has black hair and eyes, and looks sterner; and he is taller and bigger altogether."
"He's not—he's not my cousin, Ellen! [...] He my cousin!" cried Cathy, with a scornful laugh.
"You are my son, then, I'll tell you; and your mother was a wicked slut to leave you in ignorance of the sort of father you possessed."
"I'll be very kind to him, you needn't fear. Only nobody else must be kind to him: I'm jealous of monopolising his affection."
"My son is prospective owner of your place, and I should not wish him to die till I was certain of being his successor."
"I have a room up-stairs, furnished for him in handsome style; I've engaged a tutor, also, to come three times a week."
"Cannot ate it? But Maister Hareton nivir ate naught else, when he wer a little 'un."
"Don't mention his mother to me. Get him something that he can eat, that's all."
"I hope you'll be kind to the boy, Mr. Heathcliff, or you'll not keep him long; and he's all you have akin in the wide world."
"He'll never let his friends be at ease, and he'll never be at ease himself!"
"I was at the Heights by half-past six, and generally stayed till half-past eight, and then galloped home."
"I'm not crying for myself, Ellen, it's for him. He expected to see me again tomorrow, and there he'll be so disappointed."
"He does his work, eats his food, and sleeps eternally! What a blank, dreary mind he must have!"
"I'm glad to see you out of doors again, Mr. Lockwood."
"I disturbed nobody, Nelly, and I gave some ease to myself."
"I care nothing for his anger," exclaimed Cathy.
"I've been starved a month and more," she answered.
"You are a boastful champion," replied Heathcliff.
"It is not I who hate you, it is you who hate me!"
"I didn't know you took my part, and I was miserable and bitter at everybody."
"You'll be ashamed of me every day of your life."
"I'm the only person to blame, for I wished him to do it."
"He's forgotten all I've done for him, and made on him."
"I'm too happy; and yet I'm not happy enough."
"I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction."
"My soul's bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself."
"I have a single wish, and my whole being and faculties are yearning to attain it."