Quotes About Bronte

Then you'd better listen, because me sounding like Bronte is one of the signs of the apocalypse-and if the end fo the world is coming, good deeds could earn you Judgment day brownie points.

Earnshaw is quite a famous name, thanks to Miss Brontë . I did not realise there were Earnshaws in this country." Mrs. Earnshaw gave a sharp nod. "Aye. And Heathcliffs and Eyres, as well. Proper little thieves, those Brontë girls.

'The Thirteenth Tale' is reminiscent of 'Wuthering Heights' because you're never sure if it's a ghost or if people have gone a bit mad; that feeling that's been channelled all the way from Bronte is a really exciting one.

Take my books away, and I should be desperate!

A perfect misanthropist's heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us.

You are welcome to torture me to death for your amusement, only allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style.

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep ?without identity. and never care how rain may steep, ?or snow may cover me –

And would it not be foolish to mourn a calamity above twenty years beforehand?

But cheer up! He died true to his character: drunk as a lord.

O thy sweet tongue must plead for me

I'd rayther he'd goan hisseln for t' doctor! I sud ha, taen tent o' t' maister better nor him—and he warn't deead when I left, naught o' t' soart!

I'd soon put that little canary into the park on a winter's day as recommend you to bestow your heart on him!

Ah, your favourites are among these! I continued, turning to an obscure cushion full of something like cats. A strange choice of favourites, she observed scornfully. Unluckily, it was a heap of dead rabbits.

I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.  This is certainly a beautiful country!  In all England

Mr. Heathcliff and his man climbed the cellar stairs with vexatious phlegm.

Oh, what an afternoon for heaven, When 'Brontë' entered there!

My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum, burst into tears, jumped over a stile and ran out into the moors. It felt very authentic: A moor really is an excellent place to have a temper tantrum.

if I can gain the public ear at all, I would rather whisper a few wholesome truths therein than much soft nonsense

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

I come from a working-class background where I was much more likely to read socialist books and leaflets than Bronte or Dickens - neither of whom I've yet read.

Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That's not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it's because they were neurotic that they read all those books and became writers. The famous French advertising slogan that says, "When you love life, you go to the movies," it's false! It's exactly the opposite: when you don't love life, or when life doesn't give you satisfaction, you go to the movies.

I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.

I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.