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Tess of the d'Urbervilles quotes

Thomas Hardy

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“My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“However, our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Why didn't you tell me there was danger in men-folk? Why didn't you warn me? Ladies know what to fend hands against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance o' learning in that way, and you did not help me!” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Having begun to love you, I love you for ever—in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Once victim, always victim—that's the law!” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Meanwhile the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“She's brim full of poetry—actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She LIVES what paper-poets only write...” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says some women may feel?” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“The perfect woman, you see, was a working woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who used her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“So do flux and reflux—the rhythm of change—alternate and persist in everything under the sky.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Beauty to her, as to all who have felt, lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon and stars were as ardent as they.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch...” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Not guessing the cause, there was nothing to remind him that experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Don't think of what's past! . . . I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what to-morrow has in store?” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“The cruelty of fooled honesty is often great after enlightenment, and it was mighty in Clare now.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don't you think so?” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“If an offense come out of the truth, better it is that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Do you know that I have undergone three-quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity, was now no longer a minor feature in Mrs Angel Clare; and it sustained her.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Distinction does not consist in the facile use of a contemptible set of conventions, but in being numbered among those who are true, and honest, and just, and pure, and lovely, and of good report” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming...” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power over her which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Mrs d'Urberville was not the first mother compelled to love her offspring resentfully, and to be bitterly fond.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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