Emily Bronte Quotes

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Emily Bronte

Profession : Novelist

Birth : July 30, 1818

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Bronte

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.

Emily Bronte

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

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

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Emily Bronte

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

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Emily Bronte

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

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

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

Emily Bronte

Terror made me cruel.

Emily Bronte

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

Emily Bronte

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

Emily Bronte

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

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