Quotations about transgression

Wuthering Heights

• 'I found that they had christened him 'Heathcliff': it was the name of a son who died in childhood' (Nelly, Chapter IV)
• 'He would stand Hindley's blows without winking or shedding a tear' (Nelly, Chapter IV)
• 'When he saw my horse's breast faintly pushing the barrier...' (Lockwood, Chapter I)
• 'I was only going to say that 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' (Catherine, Chapter IX)
• 'It has served him ever since, both for Christian and surname' (Nelly, Chapter IV)
• 'Imp of Satan' (Hindley, Chapter IV)
• 'As dark almost as if he came from the devil' (Mr Earnshaw, Chapter IV)
• 'I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world' (Cathy, Chapter XV)
• 'Every night I'll haunt the place, and every day, til I find an opportunity of entering' (Heathcliff, Chapter XIV)
• 'Knocking my knuckles through the glass...' (Lockwood, Chapter III)
• 'Being alone and conscious two yards of loose earth was the sole barrier between us, I said to myself - 'I'll have her in my arms again! If she be cold, I'll think it is this north wind that chills ME: and if she is motionless, it is sleep'. I got a spade from the tool-house, and began to delve with all my might - it scraped the coffin' (Heathcliff, Chapter XXIX)

The Pardoner's Tale

• 'By ounces henge his lokkes that he hadde,
  And therwith he hise shuldres overspradde,
  But thynne it lay by colpons oon and oon;
  But hood, for jolitee, ne wered he noon' (Portrait, Lines 677-680)
• 'With hym ther was a gentil PARDONER
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