Tess Of The D Urbervilles Quotes

While there’s life, there is hope.

Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?

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

While there’s life, there’s hope.

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

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

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

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

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

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.