Thomas Hardy Tess Quotations

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

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

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.

Bless thy simplicity, Tess

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

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

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

Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?