Wuthering Heights Key Quotations Flashcards
Chapter 1 - Mr Lockwood
‘Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him’
Chapter 1 - Mr Lockwood
‘some people might suspect him of a degree of underbred pride; I have a sympathetic chord within that tells me it is nothing of the sort.’
Chapter 1 - Mr Lockwood
‘I could ill endure after this inhospitable treatment.’
Chapter 2 - Mr Lockwood about Heathcliff
‘with an almost diabolical sneer on his face’
Chapter 2 - Mr Lockwood as Heathcliff finds Lockwood thinking that Hareton is his son hilarious, and is partly insulted.
‘Heathcliff smiled again, as if it were rather too bold a jest to attribute the paternity of that bear to him.’
Chapter 3 - Catherine Earnshaw in her diary
‘like two babies, kissing and talking nonsense by the hour – foolish palaver that we should be ashamed of.’
Chapter 3 - Mr Lockwood dreaming of Catherine due to previously reading her diary, transcending the barriers of dream and reality
‘stretching an arm out to seize the importunate branch; instead of which, my fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand! The intense horror of nightmare came over me’
Chapter 3 - Mr Lockwood
‘Terror made me cruel’
Chapter 3 - Catherine Earnshaw in ghost form
“twenty years. I’ve been a waif for twenty years.”
Chapter 3 - Mr Lockwood said to Heathcliff
“that minx, Catherine Linton, or Earnshaw, or however she was called – she must have been a changeling – wicked little soul!”
Chapter 3 - Mr Lockwood
‘he got on to the bed, and wrenched open the lattice, bursting, as he pulled at it, into an uncontrollable passion of tears. ‘Come in! Come in!’ he sobbed. ‘Cathy, do come. Oh do – once more! Oh! My heart’s darling! Hear me this time, Catherine, at last!’’
Chapter 4 - Mr Lockwood
‘I desired Mrs Dean, when she brought in supper, to sit down while I ate it; hoping sincerely she would prove a regular gossip.’
Chapter 4 - Mr Lockwood
‘she was not a gossip, I feared’
Chapter 4 - Nelly Dean on Mrs Earnshaw’s reaction to her husband bringing Heathcliff home
‘Mrs Earnshaw was ready to fling it out of doors: she did fly up, asking how he could fashion to bring that gipsy brat into the house’
Chapter 4 - Nelly Dean
‘Not a soul knew to whom it belonged’
Chapter 4 - Nelly Dean
‘Cathy, when she learnt the master had lost her whip in attending on the stranger, showed her humour by grinning and spitting at the stupid little thing’
Chapter 4 - Nelly Dean
‘Hindley hated him: and to say the truth I did the same.’
Chapter 4 - Nelly Dean
‘he would stand Hindley’s blows without winking or shedding a tear, and my pinches moved him only to draw in a breath and open his eyes, as if he had hurt himself by accident and nobody was to blame.’
Chapter 4 - Nelly Dean in explaining Hindley’s dislike for Heathcliff
‘Heathcliff as a usurper of his father’s affections and his privileges’
Chapter 4 - Nelly Dean
‘he was the quietest child that ever nurse watched over’
Chapter 4 - Hindley Earnshaw
“Show him what you are, imp of Satan. And take that, I hope he’ll kick out your brains!”
Chapter 5 - Nelly Dean
‘humouring was rich nourishment to the child’s pride and black tempers.’
