Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
Top 10 Best Quotes
“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.”
“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
“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.”
“Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!”
“Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?”
“Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…”
“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.”
“If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.”
“...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes”
“This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?”
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