Heathcliff Quotes

Heathcliff Quotes

1. "But Mr. Heathcliff forms a singular contrast to his abode and style of living. He is a dark-skinned gipsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman"

   • "Nelly, make me decent. I'm going to be good."
     • "by a natural impulse, he arrested his descent"

2. "He'll love and hate equally under cover"

   • "I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last."
     • "I dare say he would have tried to remedy the mistake by smashing Hareton's skull on the steps"
     • If you fancy I'll suffer unrevenged, I'll convince you of the contrary"
       • "Do you suppose I'm going with that blow burning in my gullet?"

3. "many could not imagine the existence of happiness in a life os cut complete exile from the world as you spend, Mr. Heathcliff"

   • "they had not the manners to ask me to stay"
   • "don't turn me out for those pitiful, silly friends of yours!"
   • "As soon as you become Mrs. Linton, he loses friend, and love, and all!...Have you considered how...he'll bear to be quite deserted to the world?"
   • "He...suggested the kitchen as a more suitable place for him."
   • "existence, after losing her, would be hell."
   • You talk of her mind being unsettled. How the devil could it be otherwise in her frightful isolation?"
   • "if you are his choice, he will be the most unfortunate creature that ever was born!"

4. "A candle dripping over his fingers"

   • "dashing a tear from his eyes"
     • "He struggled to vanquish an excess of violent emotion"
       • "bursting...into an uncontrollable passion of tears..."Oh, my heart's darling! hear me this time, Catherine, at last!"
   • "hardened, perhaps, to ill-treatment"
     • 'His treatment of the latter was enough to make a fiend of a saint"
     • "Did you ever fell a touch of it [pity] in your life?"

5. "Rough as a saw-edge, and hard as ghinstone!'

   • "almost as if it came from the devil"
     • "imp of Satan"
       • "He's not a rough diamond...he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man."
         • "the black villain"
         • "Is Mr. Heathcliff a man?...is he mad?...is he a devil?"
     • "would it not be a kindness to the country to hand him at once, before he shows his nature in acts as well as features?"

6. "the boy would do her bidding in anything"

   • "if Catherine had wished to return, I intended shattering their great glass panes to a million of fragments"
     • "I never would have banished him from her society as long as she desired his."

7. "I'd not exchange, for a thousand lives, my condition here, for Edgar Linton's at Thrushcross Grange"

   • "The notion of envying Catherine was incomprehensible to him, but the notion of grieving her he understood clearly enough."
     • "He had ceased to express his fondness for her in words"
     • "To show that I do take notice!"
     • "You are welcome to torture me to death for your amusement"
   • "I wish I had light hair and a fair skin..and had a chance of being as rich as he will be!"
     • "he'd be quite capable of marrying your fortune"
       • "He says he has married me on purpose to obtain power over him"
   • "The lamb of yours threatens like a bull"
     • "And that is the slavering, shivering thing you preferred to me!"
       • "Heathcliff would as soon lift a finger at you as the king would march his army against a colony of mice"
         • "I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair on his head."

8. "She is so immeasurably superior to them-to everybody on earth"

   • "Your welcome has put these ideas out of my mind."
     • "his mind was unchangeable"
   • "I struggled only for you!'
   • "We should think ourselves in heaven!"
     • "The adjective 'our' gave mortal offence"

9. "Heathcliff has never been heard of since the evening of the thunderstorm"

   • "It ended."

10. "Your bliss lies...in inflicting misery"

    • "I thought he never looked better"