A biography for Emily Brontehasn’t been written yet.
“I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.”
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
“I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.”
“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”
“The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.”
“Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.”
“Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.”
“Honest people don't hide their deeds.”
“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?”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.”
“Terror made me cruel.”
“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.”