Emily Bronte Quotes
"A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly."
- Emily Bronte
(Related: Heart, Help, Ugly, Will)
"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 Bronte
(Related: Work, Chance, Day)
"Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living."
- Emily Bronte
(Related: Living)
"Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home."
- Emily Bronte
(Related: Home, Charity, Giving)
"Honest people don't hide their deeds."
- Emily Bronte
(Related: People, Deeds)
"I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself."
- Emily Bronte
(Related: Society, Company, Country, Man, Now, Pleasure)
"I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."
- Emily Bronte
(Related: Dreams, Life, Ideas, Mind, Water, Wine)
"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide."
- Emily Bronte
(Related: Nature)
"If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results."
- Emily Bronte
(Related: Work, Obscurity, Results, Silence)
"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?"
- Emily Bronte
(Related: Friendship, Love, Holly, Will)
"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."
- Emily Bronte
(Related: People)
"Terror made me cruel."
- Emily Bronte
(Related: Terror)
"The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them."
- Emily Bronte
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
- Emily Bronte
"I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you."
- Emily Bronte
(Related: Existence)