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Inspirational Quotes by Emily Bronte (English Novelist, Poet)

Inspirational Quotations by Emily Bronte (English Novelist, Poet)

Emily Brontë (1818–48,) who wrote under a male pseudonym, Ellis Bell, was an English novelist and poet. Emily was one of a troika of Brontë sisters whose writings introduced some of the most appealing characters in the history of the novel.

Emily, along with her sisters Charlotte Brontë and Anne Brontë and brother Branwell grew up in the genteel poverty in the desolate Yorkshire village of Haworth, and had limited experience of the outside world. The early death of their mother and their two older sisters drove the remaining children into an intense and private intimacy. They read Shakespeare, Milton, and Virgil, played the piano and told each other stories. Each sister went on to transform great personal adversity into distinctive artistic visions of passionate, emotional engagement that few other authors can match.

Emily completed only one novel, Wuthering Heights (1847.) It is often acknowledged as the most eminent and the most comprehensive of the Brontë sisters’ works. Wuthering Heights was about a boy from the streets of Liverpool named Heathcliff who is adopted into a prosperous family and falls in love with his adopted sister, Catherine Earnshaw. When he realizes he cannot have her, he tries to take revenge upon the entire family. Emily’s dramatization of a life controlled by elemental forces, which transcend conventional categories of good and evil, was a unique achievement in its time.

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Having leveled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
—Emily Bronte
Topics: Charity

I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
—Emily Bronte
Topics: Thought, Reason, Ideas, Dreams

I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading; it vexes me to choose another guide.
—Emily Bronte
Topics: Aptness, Appropriateness

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
Topics: Society

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
—Emily Bronte
Topics: Happiness

Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?
—Emily Bronte
Topics: Friendship, Friends and Friendship

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
Topics: Goodness

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
Topics: Work

Vain are the thousand creeds that move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
—Emily Bronte
Topics: Belief

I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal…
—Emily Bronte
Topics: Faith

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep
Without identity.
—Emily Bronte
Topics: Death

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
—Emily Bronte
Topics: Dying, Death

Cold in the earth – and the deep snow piled above thee,
Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave!
—Emily Bronte
Topics: Snow

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
—Emily Bronte
Topics: Tyranny

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
—Emily Bronte
Topics: Love, Marriage

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
—Emily Bronte
Topics: Work

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
—Emily Bronte
Topics: Sorrow, Pride

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