Wuthering Heights (1992)

Ralph Fiennes: Heathcliff

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• Heathcliff : I pray one prayer, I repeat it till my tongue stiffens. Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you, haunt me, then!... Be with me always, take any form, drive me mad, only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!... I cannot live without my life. I cannot live without my soul.

• Heathcliff : 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 : Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? You loved me. And what right had you to leave me? The poor fancy you felt for Linton? Nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us. You of your own will did it. I've not broken your heart Cathy, you have broken it. And in breaking it, you've broken mine.

• Cathy : You left me, too, but I forgive you. Forgive me.

  Heathcliff : It's so hard... to forgive alone, it's a lie. Yes, I forgive what you've done to me. I love my murderer. But yours... how can I?

• Heathcliff : Now, my bonny lad, you're mine. Let's see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it.

• Heathcliff : Close your eyes. If, when you open your eyes, the day is sunny and bright, so shall your future be. But if the day is full of storms, so shall be your life. Now open your eyes.

• Cathy : Doesn't it make you wish you'd been adopted by the Lintons?

  Heathcliff : I wouldn't give up what I have for a thousand lives like the Lintons.

• Mr Lockwood : Mr. Heathcliff, if I'm not to have a guide to take me up to the Grange, I shall have to sleep here tonight.

  Heathcliff : I don't keep accommodation for strangers.

• Mr Lockwood : I'll go with him as far as the park.

  Heathcliff : You'll go with him to Hell.

• Cathy : Very foolish. As if I took notice. Where's the sense in that?

  Heathcliff : To show that I do take notice.

• Cathy : Don't you trust me? Don't you know I'll always come back? Don't you know that? Heathcliff.

  Heathcliff : Always?

• Heathcliff : I found a lapwing's nest at Peniston Crag when you were away. I waited every day for sight of you - coming over the moors. But you didn't come. So I put a wire mesh over the nest, and all the little ones died when they hatched.

  Cathy : Why?

  Heathcliff : Because the parent birds couldn't get near enough to feed them.

  Cathy : No. Why did you starve them?

  Heathcliff : Well, there wasn't any point in keeping them alive to show you.

• Heathcliff : This lamb of yours threatens like a bull.

• Heathcliff : I believe Cathy has been painting a black picture of me. You mustn't imagine for a moment that she lies. I'm a villain. I'm only after your fortune.

  [kisses Isabella] 

• Heathcliff : She hates herself. As you see, she degenerates into a mere slut.

• Heathcliff : There's a strange change approaching.

• Heathcliff : Will you come with me? No. To you, I've made myself worse than the devil.

• Heathcliff : It's been a long fight. I wish it were over.