Wuthering Heights Key Quotes
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Wuthering Heights Key Quotes
- 'A suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow!'
- 'Reflected splendidly both light and heat' 'oatcakes, clusters of legs of beef'/ 'horsepistols' 'squealing puppies'
- 'dark skinned gipsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman'
- 'beneficent fairy' 'owning your good fairy'
- 'pen-and-ink commentary covering every morsel of blank that the printer had left'
- 'I hated a good book'
- 'I pulled its wrist onto the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro 'till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes'
- 'rough as a saw-edge and hard as whinestone!'
- 'Take it as a gift from God, though its as dark as if it came from the devil'
- 'spitting at the stupid little thing'
- 'I put it on the landing of the stairs, hoping it might be gone on the morrow'
- 'A sullen, patient child, hardened perhaps, to ill treatment'
- 'He said precious little, and generally the truth'
- 'Heathcliff as a usurper' 'grew bitter with brooding'
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Wuthering Heights Key Quotes
- 'Cathy and her brother harassed me terribly, he was as uncomplaining as a lamb'
- 'the wearisomest, self-righteous pharisee that ever ransacked a bible'
- 'Once she made you cry... it seldom happened that she would not keep you company'
- 'The greatest punishment we could invent for her was keeping her seperate from him'
- 'no parson in the world ever pictured heaven as beautifully as they did'
- 'A splendid place, carpeted with crimson and with crimson covered chairs and tables and a pure white ceiling bordered with gold'
- 'a gipsy' 'a villain' 'a wicked boy'
- 'the vacant blue eyes of the Lintons'
- 'Edgar Linton shall look quite a doll beside you'
- 'I wish I had blonde hair and fair skin and was dressed and behaved as well'
- 'Your father was emperor of China, your mother an Indian Queen'
- 'She did turn out a haughty, headstrong creature... I did not like her' 'a double character'
- 'he wanted spirit in general'
- 'You might be dumb or a baby for all you say to amuse me'
- 'he possessed the power to leave as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half-killed or a bird half-eaten'
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Wuthering Heights Key Quotes
- 'In my soul and in my heart, I've convinced I'm wrong'
- 'If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable'
- 'It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff' 'he's more myself than I am' 'If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be' 'as different as a moonbeam from lightening or frost from fire'
- 'they'll meet the fate of Milo' 'split the tree off at the corner of the building'
- 'It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn'
- 'a deep voice, foreign in tone' 'dressed in dark clothes, with dark face and hair' 'tall, athletic, well-formed man'
- 'the kitchen as a more suitable place for him'
- 'Heathcliff and myself, being of lower orders'
- 'an unreclaimed creature, without refinement - without cultivation; an arid wilderness of furze and whinestone' 'he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man'
- 'Honest people don't hide their deeds'
- 'this lamb of yours threatens like a bull' 'a sucking leveret' 'milk-bloooded coward' 'shivering, slavering thing'
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Wuthering Heights Key Quotes
- 'I'll try to break their hearts by breaking my own'
- 'Your veins are full of ice-water, but mine are boiling'
- 'he is continually among his books, since he has no other society'
- 'our fiery Catherine was no better than a wailing child'
- 'my misery arose from the seperation he had ordered between me and Heathcliff'
- 'the wife of a stranger, a exile, an outcast'
- 'Is Mr Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?'
- 'How powerful I should be possessing such an instrument' 'covetous'
- 'His danger does not shock you'
- 'he swore it was not, nor ever should be, mine'
- 'no brutality disgusted her, I suppose she has an inane admiration of it'
- 'I've sometimes relented, from pure lack of invention, in my experiments on what she could endure' 'I keep strictly within the limits of the law'
- 'That is not my Heathcliff'
- 'Heaven would be a land of exile for her'
- 'While you are at peace, I shall writhe in the torments of hell'
- 'would you like to live with your soul in the grave'
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Wuthering Heights Key Quotes
- 'The murdered do haunt their murderers'
- 'I cannot live without my soul'
- 'He dashed his head against the knotted trunk'
- 'He's not a human being... I gave him my heart and he took it and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me'
- 'I experienced pleasure in being able to exasperate him'
- 'he tore off the sleeve of Earshaw's coat and bound it with brutal roughness'
- 'his basilisk eyes'
- 'She has disturbed me, day and night, through eighteen years'
- 'so certainly I felt that Cathy was there'
- 'I am within sight of my heaven'
- 'not Mr Heathcliff, but a goblin'
- 'where did he come from, the dark little thing?'
- 'is he a ghoul or a vampire?'
- 'You have lived a selfish, unchristian life'
- 'I have nearly attained my heaven, and that of others is altogether uncoveted and unvalued by me'
- 'That old man sitting by the kitchen fire swears he has seen the two on 'em'
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