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.
This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be – and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak.
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
People go on marrying because they can’t resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month’s pleasure with a life’s discomfort.
There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.
If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.