Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Quotes
Tess of the D'UrbervillesbyThomas Hardy
62,218 ratings, 3.62 average rating, 3,301 reviews Tess of the D'Urbervilles Quotes (showing 1-50 of 88)
“A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles tags: strength, woman
“Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"
"Yes."
"All like ours?"
"I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."
"Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"
"A blighted one.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles tags: stars
“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
― 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 tags: alec, feelings, strength, tess, women
“This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
“Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…”
― 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
“Sometimes I feel I don't want to know anything more about [history] than I know already. [...] Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only--finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember that your nature and you past doings have been kist like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings'll be like thousands' and thousands'. [...] I shouldn't mind
Tess of the D'UrbervillesbyThomas Hardy
62,218 ratings, 3.62 average rating, 3,301 reviews Tess of the D'Urbervilles Quotes (showing 1-50 of 88)
“A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles tags: strength, woman
“Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"
"Yes."
"All like ours?"
"I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."
"Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"
"A blighted one.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles tags: stars
“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
― 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 tags: alec, feelings, strength, tess, women
“This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
“Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…”
― 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
“Sometimes I feel I don't want to know anything more about [history] than I know already. [...] Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only--finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember that your nature and you past doings have been kist like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings'll be like thousands' and thousands'. [...] I shouldn't mind