Wuthering Heights

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Quotes from Wuthering Heights

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"I am strong and am glad—I should be ashamed to feel otherwise."
Cathy Linton Strength
N
"The kinder you've been in life, the nearer you are to Heaven."
Nelly Dean Kindness
N
"Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition."
Nelly Dean Happiness
N
"She was much too fond of Heathcliff."
Nelly Dean Love
N
"He's as dark almost as if he came from the devil."
Nelly Dean
C
"Whatever mind is not satisfied, cannot be happy."
Catherine Earnshaw Happiness
H
"Vengeance is a kind of wild justice."
Heathcliff Justice
N
"Love will make small cottages feel like castles."
Nelly Dean Love
H
"I'm running mad with desire and despair!"
Heathcliff
N
"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."
Nelly Dean Wisdom
H
"I have not broken your heart—you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine."
Heathcliff
C
"He's excessively fond of books, is he not?"
Cathy Linton Education
H
"One word now, would be healing—its silence is hellish delight."
Heathcliff
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"I would as soon put that little canary into the park on a winter's day, as recommend you to bestow your heart on him."
Nelly Dean
N
"Cathy is a wicked slip nobody can tell what she will grow into."
Nelly Dean
C
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me."
Catherine Earnshaw
H
"The entire world is nothing to me, but you."
Heathcliff
H
"You see I am nothing canny."
Heathcliff Truth
C
"I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free."
Catherine Earnshaw Freedom
N
"He's a human being, not a brute animal."
Nelly Dean
C
"Nelly, I am Heathcliff!"
Catherine Earnshaw
C
"I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or ought to be an existence of yours beyond you."
Catherine Earnshaw Philosophy
H
"The punishment of my wickedness, I suppose."
Heathcliff Wisdom
C
"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to exist."
Catherine Earnshaw Love
C
"I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind."
Catherine Earnshaw Love
C
"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, we're the same."
Catherine Earnshaw Relationships
C
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
Catherine Earnshaw Love
H
"I have crossed oceans of time to find you."
Heathcliff Love
H
"We are all prisoners of our own making."
Heathcliff Philosophy
C
"The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of."
Catherine Earnshaw Love