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Quotes from Wuthering Heights (1939)

43 quotes
Laurence Olivier
Heathcliff: You just want to send me off. That won't do. I've stayed here and been beaten like a dog, abused and cursed and driven mad, but I stayed just to be near you, even as a dog. And I'll stay 'til the end. I'll live and I'll die under this rock.
- Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights (1939)

Donald Crisp
Dr. Kenneth: Ask your husband to call another doctor in future. Whoever dwells in this house is beyond my healing arts.
- Donald Crisp (as Dr. Kenneth) in Wuthering Heights (1939)

Donald Crisp
Dr. Kenneth: Hindley, why don't you hit yourself over the head with a hammer when you wake up every morning?
Hindley: Why?
Dr. Kenneth: Well, if you do, you'll achieve virtually the same results as you do with a bottle of whiskey, with much less wear and tear on the kidneys.
- Donald Crisp (as Dr. Kenneth) in Wuthering Heights (1939)

Laurence Olivier
Heathcliff: I cannot live without my life! I cannot die without my soul!
- Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights (1939)

Laurence Olivier
Heathcliff: I want to crawl to her feet, whimper to be forgiven... for loving me. For needing her more than my own life... for belonging to her more than my own soul.
- Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights (1939)

Laurence Olivier
Heathcliff: If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day.
- Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights (1939)

Laurence Olivier
Heathcliff: If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I'd be your slave. Cathy, if your heart were only stronger than your dull fear of God and the world, I'd live contented, silently in your shadow. But No. You must destroy us both with that weakness you call virtue.
- Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights (1939)

Laurence Olivier
Heathcliff: My tears don't love you, Cathy. They blight and curse and damn you!
Cathy: Heathcliff, don't break my heart.
Heathcliff: Oh Cathy, I never broke your heart. You broke it!
- Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights (1939)

Laurence Olivier
Heathcliff: Tell the dirty stable boy to let go of you. He soiled your pretty dress. But who soiled your heart? Not Heathcliff. Who turns you into a vain, cheap, worldly fool? Linton does. You'll never love him, but you'll let yourself be loved because it pleases your stupid, greedy vanity.
- Laurence Olivier (as Heathcliff) in Wuthering Heights (1939)

Geraldine Fitzgerald
Heathcliff: Why are your eyes always empty? Like Linton's eyes.
Isabella: They're not empty, if you'd only look deeper. Look at me. I'm pretty. I'm a woman and I love you. You're all of life to me. Let me be a single breath of it for you.
- Geraldine Fitzgerald (as Isabella Linton) in Wuthering Heights (1939)