character of joseph
“Joseph must needs get up a congregation”
“Joseph’s religious curses”
“The wearisomest self-righteous Pharisee that had ever ransacked a Bible”
Older generation’s disregard for Bible study
"Hindley and his wife […] doing everything but reading their Bibles”
Nelly on Catherine’s beauty in death
“no angel in heaven will be as beautiful as she appeared”
Isabella says Heathcliff is not human, he is the devil
“he is less of a man than he is a devil”
Catherine has no business marrying Edgar, nor being in heaven
“I have no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven”
Heathcliff’s blasphemous alteration of Cathy’s grave
“I struck one side of the coffin loose, and covered it up […] I bribed the sexton to pull it away when I’m there, and slide mine out too […] then by the time Linton gets to us he’ll not know which is which!”