Wuthering Heights
Important Quotes (Bantam version)
This is not a complete list of all important quotes; this is just a list of what I have annotated
in my book.
Chapter 1
 p. 1 “A perfect misanthropist’s Heaven…”
 p. 3 “But Mr. Heathcliff forms a singular contrast…”
Chapter 2
 p. 10 “ ‘Get it ready, will you?’? … “not a capital fellow.”
 p. 11 “Mrs. Heathcliff is my daughter-in-law…”
 p. 11 “My name is Hareton Earnshaw…”
Chapter 3
 p. 17 Start of Catherine’s diary “An awful Sunday…”
 p. 19 “Poor Heathcliff!...”
 p. 19 Lockwood’s dreams “I began to nod drowsily…”
 p. 22-23 Gothic Catherin’s ghost “I’d lost my way on the moor…twenty years…”
 p. 226 Heathcliff’s reaction to the ghost “Come in! Come in!... There was such
anguish in the gush of grief…”
 p. 26 Allusion to Macbeth (Grimalkin)
 p. 27 “And you are worthless—…”
Chapter 4
 p. 31 “It’s a cuckoo’s, sir…”
 p. 32 Nelly’s narration begins “Before I came to live here…”
 p. 32 the fiddle and the whip
 p. 33 entrance of Heathcliff and characterization
 p. 34-35 Gothic isolation and characterization
 p. 36 “I was completely deceived
Chapter 6
 p. 41-42 “Young Earnshaw was altered considerably in the three years of his
absence…other lad on the farm”
 p. 42 “But it was one of the chief amusements…”
 p. 43-44 Thrushcross Grange “Ah! It was beautiful… with Hindley’s blood”
Chapter 7
 p. 48 “Nobody but I even…”
 p. 49 “I shall not…”
 p. 50 “They had invited them…”
 p. 52 Gothic, Heathcliff v. Edgar
 p. 56 “”I’m trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back…”
Chapter 8
 p. 67 “And so it was…”
Chapter 9
 p. 69 “A miser who has parted with a luck lottery ticket…”
 p. 72-77 Catherine and Heathcliff’s love vs. Catherine and Edgar’s love
Chapter 10
 p. 87 Return of Heathcliff “Something stirred… A ray fell on his features…”
 p. 90 “A half-civilized ferocity lurked…”
 p. 91-94 love triangle” Edgar, Cathy, Heathcliff
 p. 96 Isabella’s infatuation
 p. 101 “I wanted something to happen…”
Chapter 11
 p. 128-137 Isabella’s letter
 p. 146 “Dree and dreary!...second edition of the mother!”
Chapter 15
 p. 149 “ ‘What now?’ said Catherine…” to the birth of Young Cathy
Chapter 16
 p. 158 “May she wake in torment…”
 p. 159 “He did not omit to avail himself…”
Chapter 17
 p. 176 “Now, my bonny lad, you are mine!...”
Chapter 24
 p. 238 “I felt he spoke the truth… as the latter.”
Chapter 27
 p. 258 “I’ll not retract my word…”
Chapter 29
 p. 270-273 Gothic
Chapter 32
 Lockwood returns 1 year later: real time
 Change in Wuthering Heights
 Love between Hareton and Cathy p. “It’s owner stood behind…”
 Flashback p. 292 “He’s just like a dog…”
 p. 293-294 “I found out Hareton that I want—that I’m glad—that I should like you to
be my cousin, now, if you had not grown so cross to me, and so rough.”
 Hareton v. Cathy turn into love p.249-297
Chapter 33
 p. 298 the garden
 p. 302 Cathy and Hareton
 p. 303-305 Heathcliff relents
Chapter 34
 p. 309 “I was on threshold of hell…”
 p. 312 “I wish I could annihilate it from the face of the earth…” to Heathcliff’s death
 p. 315 “But poor Hareton, the most wronged…”
 p. 316 “But the country folk…”
 p. 317 “They are afraid of nothing. Together, they would brave Satan and all his
legions.”
 p. 317 Lockwood’s realism