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Wuthering Heights Quotes

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  • "I'm now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself." -Mr. Lockwood (Ch. III)

• • "Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves." -Nelly Dean (Ch. VII)

• • "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." -Nelly Dean (Ch. VII)

• • "Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy. That will do to explain my secret, as well as the other." -Catherine Earnshaw (Ch. IX)

• • "The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them." -Heathcliff (Ch. XI)

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  • "he had ceased to express his fondness for her in words, and recoiled with angry suspicion from her girlish caresses, as if conscious there could be no gratification in lavishing such marks of affection on him." -Chapter 8, pg. 61

• • "He'll never let his friends be at ease, and he'll never be at ease himself!" -Chapter 24, pg. 233

• • "Catherine's face was just like the landscape--shadows and sunshine flitting over it in rapid succession; but the shadows rested longer, and the sunshine was more transient..." -Chapter 27, pg. 243

• • ""You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!" -Chapter 30, pg. 268-269

• SparkNotes: Important Wuthering Heights Quotes Explained
  • "It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and [Edgar’s] is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire." -Catherine Earnshaw, Chapter IX

• • "That, however, which you may suppose the most potent to arrest my imagination, is actually the least, for what is not connected with her to me? and what does not recall her? I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped on the flags! In every cloud, in every tree—filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object by day, I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men and women—my own features—mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!" -Heathcliff, Chapter XXXIII

• LitQuotes: Wuthering Heights Quotes
  • "Terror made me cruel..."

• • "Honest people don't hide their deeds."

• • "My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees - my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath - a source of little visible delight, but necessary."

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  • "...Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you--haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!" -Heathcliff, (176)

• • "But the country folks, if you asked them, would swear on their Bible that he walks. There are those who speak to having met him near the church, and on the moor, and even within this house. Idle tales, you'll say, and so say I. Yet that old man by the kitchen fire affirms he has seen two on 'em looking out of his chamber window, on every rainy night since his death." Ellen, (349)