Tess Of The D Urbervilles Quotes

O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.

Let truth be told – women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there’s life there’s hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the “betrayed” as some amiable theorists would have us believe.

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

While there’s life, there is hope.

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?

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.

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.