Emily Bronte Quotes


Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.


Citations

Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847.

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Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte
  • Born: July 30, 1818
  • Died: December 19, 1848
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Novelist

Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She also published a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell with her own poems finding regard as poetic genius. Emily was the second-youngest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell.