Heathcliff

Character in Wuthering Heights From: Wuthering Heights

Foundling raised by the Earnshaws; becomes the central antagonist driven by revenge and passion

257 quotes

"One word from you would silence me, but you won't give it."
Hope
"I have got the upper hand, and I will keep it."
Power
"I must bend, not break; my pride."
Strength
"Kind regards or regard will not do."
Love
"You taught me then how cruel you were cruel, and false."
"I grew impatient with his measured tones."
"She's torn from my heart and trampled on it."
"I have crossed oceans of time to find you."
Love
"I have not broken your heart—you have broken it."
Relationships
"Vain are all my efforts; misery alone is the result."
"I have crossed oceans of time to find you."
Love
"I shall not rest till I've destroyed you."
"They have treated me cruelly, and I am resolved to show them what cruelty is."
Power
"You are welcome to torture me to death for your amusement, only allow me to amuse myself a little in the same way."
"I am not angry, only sorry to have lost you."
"She is the only woman in the world to me."
Love
"I shall go mad if this continues."
"Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy?"
"I will show you the difference between us."
Power
"Oh, I'll pay Hindley back—not with money but with my own suffering"
"He shall have it then"
"Misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us"
Love
"Vengeance will take my life—but it cannot kill my love"
Love
"I've forgotten to eat my meals and slept"
"Twenty times a day I covet death"
Death
"You have bewitched me, body and soul"
Love
"That's the curse of my existence"
Fear
"The world is a harsh and cruel place for those without power"
Power
"She cannot love as I love"
Love
"I am the only being that loves me"
Solitude