Wuthering Heights Quotes

Cathy do come. Oh, do - once more! Oh! My heart’s darling, hear me this time - Catherine, at last!

Heathcliff to Catherine I:

Love, supernatural, suffering

Tell her what Heathcliff is: an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation; an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone.

Catherine I to Nelly about Isabella:

Race, Social Class, the other

That’s not the plan. The tyrant grinds down his slaves, and they don’t turn against him; they crush those beneath them.

Heathcliff to Catherine I about Isabella’s interest in him:

Power, Revenge, Betrayal, Love

They entirely refused to have it in bed with them, or even in their room; and I had no more sense, so I put it on the landing of the stairs, hoping it might be gone on the morrow.

Nelly narrating to Lockwood about Heathcliff’s arrival:

the other, racism, xenophobia, power

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

Catherine is explaining how she feels about Edgar and Heathcliff to Nelly:

Love, the other, setting

I want the triumph of seeing my descendant fairly lord of their estates; my child hiring their children to till their fathers’ land for wages.

Heathcliff is talking to Nelly about “receiving” Linton, and what he plans to do with him:

Power, revenge, social class