There are occasions when girls like Bathsheba will put up with a great deal of unconventional behavior. When they want to be praised, which is often; when they want to be mastered, which is sometimes; and when they want no nonsense, which is seldom.
Perhaps you are making a cat’s paw of me with Phillotson all this time. Upon my word it almost seems so – to see you sitting up there so prim.
I think that whenever children be born that are not wanted they should be killed directly, before their souls come to ’em, and not allowed to grow big and walk about!
Her presence brought memories of such things as Bourbon roses, rubies, and tropical midnights; her moods recalled lotus-eaters and the march in “Athalie”; her motions, the ebb and flow of the sea; her voice, the viola.
She was in the mood for sounds of every kind now, and strained her ears to catch the faintest, in wayward enmity to her quiet of mind.
But you will never realize that an incident which filled but a degree in the circle of your thoughts covered the whole circumference of mine. No person can see exactly what and where another’s horizon is.
The lad stood before Durbeyfield, and contemplated his length from crown to toe.
But what between the poor men I won’t have, and the rich men who won’t have me, I stand as a pelican in the wilderness!
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come within.
When you’ve made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand – she’s as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: ’tis only in the flourishes there’s a difference.
Tess comprese che malgrado i lunghi mesi di segreti pentimenti, di lotte, di autoraccomandazioni, di programmi per un futuro vissuto in solitudine, il consiglio dell’amore avrebbe vinto.
That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
You have never loved me as I love you – never – never! Yours is not a passionate heart – your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite – not a woman!
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
The sky was clear – remarkably clear – and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.
If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.