Best Linton Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Wuthering Heights

“I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

“The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, 'Let me in - let me in!' 'Who are you?' I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself. 'Catherine Linton,' it replied, shiveringly (why did I think of LINTON? I had read EARNSHAW twenty times for Linton) - 'I'm come home: I'd lost my way on the moor!' As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window.”

Thinking Way Children Home Hands Faces Lost Voice Struggle Arms Horror Draws Window Let Me Twenties Intense My Way Nightmare Spokes Melancholy Coming Home Moors Linton

Book:Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

“Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he love with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years, as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough, as her whole affection be monopolized by him -- Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse -- It is not in him to be loved like me, how can she love in him what he has not?”

Ifs Years Heart Whole Moments Sea Dog Mines Fool Degrees Horse Affection Like Me Fancy Attachment Eighty Trough Linton

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”

Ifs Love Years Classic Eighty Ardor Heathcliff Trough Linton

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire”

Made Different Soul Fire Mines Lightning Frost Degrade Degrading Heathcliff Moonbeams Linton Marrying Him

Author:Emily Bronte

“I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?”

Want Complicated Gray Disguise Want Him Heathcliff Linton

Book:Lady Oracle

Source: Lady Oracle

“Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!' he said. 'It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!”

Said Danger Sorry Bulls Skulls Lambs Knocking Splitting Knuckles Cathy Linton

Book:Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights

“You loved me-then what right had you to leave me? What right-answer me-for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." ~Heathcliff”

Heart Felt Answers Poor Mines Broken Heartbreak Misery Satan Fancy Leaving Me Degradation Break Your Heart Right Answers Heathcliff Love Betrayal Love And Betrayal Linton

Author:Emily Bronte

“I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it.”

Ifs Said Hard Earth Faces Saws Air Hard Work Graves Remove Digging Coffins Heathcliff Linton

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”

Heart Mines Broken Heartbreak Heartache Heartbroken Break Up Break Your Heart Heart Broke Heathcliff Love Betrayal Love And Betrayal Linton

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will changeit,I'mwellaware, aswinterchangesthetrees. My Love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneatha source of little visible delight but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff.”

Littles Time Rocks Source Eternal Winter Delight Woods Visible Heathcliff Foliage Linton

Author:Emily Bronte

“He shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

Knows Made Soul Know How Mines Soulmate Handsome Degrade I Love Him Degrading Heathcliff Linton Marrying Him

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.”

Would Be Lasts Water Perception Fishes Surroundings Anthropology Noticing Linton

Author:Ralph Linton

“I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.”

Taste British Poetic Validation Arbiter Linton

Author:Linton Kwesi Johnson

“Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.”

Looks Important Seems Bits Disease Cancer Linton

Author:Linton Kwesi Johnson

“The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.”

Men Stills Young Passion Felt Young Man Linton

Author:Linton Kwesi Johnson

“Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.”

Spirit Voice Poet Resistance Poetic Defiance Idiom Apprenticeship Jamaicans Linton

Author:Linton Kwesi Johnson

“I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.”

Needs Writing Age Motivation Black Answers Generations Youth Racist Coming Of Age My Generation Visceral Black Youth Linton

Author:Linton Kwesi Johnson

“I wrote two poems about the 81 uprisings: Di Great Insohreckshan and Mekin Histri. I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time.”

People Two Wanted Felt Black Taken Perspective Mood Tone Capture Black People Riot Uprising Exhilaration Linton

Author:Linton Kwesi Johnson

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