But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected...

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...

I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides. Not being...

On the morning appointed for her departure Tess awoke before dawn — at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute save for one prophetic bird, who sings with a clear-voiced...

Tell him everything; it is best. He will forgive you.

If the story-tellers could ha’ got decency and good morals from true stories, who’d have troubled to invent parables?

It was the week after Easter holidays, and he was journeying along with Smart the mare and the light spring-cart, watching the damp slopes of the hill-sides as they steamed in the warmth of the...

Ha, ha. It will be warmer whenI blow the trumpet (if indeedI ever do; for you are men,And rest eternal sorely need).

Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have ’em?

It was still early, and the sun’s lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

Don’t take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can’t be yours?”That’s the very thing I say to myself,’ said Gabriel.

He’s the man we were in search of, that’s true, and yet he’s not the man we were in search of. For the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted.

Suddenly an unexpected series of sounds began to be heard in this place up against the starry sky. They were the notes of Oak´s flute. It came from the direction of a small dark object...

This good fellowship – camaraderie – usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures...

You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always

There was hardly a touch of earth in her love for Clare. To her sublime trustfulness he was all that goodness could be—knew all that a guide, philosopher, and friend should know. She thought every...

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

Tess was awake before dawn — at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows...

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.

If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.

You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.

karşılıkı duygularından çok az konuşuyorlardı, böylesi sınanmış dostluklarda güzel cümleler ve sıcak ilgi gereksizdi muhtemelen….

He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.

When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.

Don’t for God’s sake speak as saint to sinner, but as you yourself to me myself – poor me!

What a strange sort of love, to be entirely free from that quality of selfishness which is frequently the chief constituent of the passion, and sometimes it’s only one!

There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

…the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a...

They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly

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

The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods, that she seemed least solitary… She had no fear of the shadows; her sole...

She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the...

And so, though Smith was not at all the man Knight would have deliberately chosen as a friend—or even for one of a group of a dozen friends—he somehow was his friend. Circumstance, as usual,...

I shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all.

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving

He is as good as anybody in this parish! He is very particular, too, about going to church-yes, he is!”I am afeard nobody ever saw him there. I never did, certainly.”The reason of that is,’...

A half knowledge of another’s life mostly does injustice to the life unknown.

That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.

It is a difficult question, my friends, for any young man– that question I had to grapple with, and which thousands are weighing at the present moment in these uprising times– whether to follow uncritically...

Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure.

If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways.

So do flux and reflux–the rhythm of change–alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

I have been thinking … that the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am...

It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting outof love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as ashort cut that way, but it has been...

A Cathedral Façade at MidnightAlong the sculptures of the western wallI watched the moonlight creeping:It moved as if it hardly moved at allInch by inch thinly peepingRound on the pious figures of freestone, broughtAnd poised...