Ah, dear Jude; that’s because you are like a totally deaf manobserving people listening to music. You say ‘What are theyregarding? Nothing is there.’ But something is.

I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them–one or two of them particularly– almost as one of their own sex. I mean I have not felt...

Po tuo išoriniu kevalu – į jį pašalinis žmogus tik prabėgomis žvilgtertų kaip į nereikšmingą, tiesiog negyvą daiktą – slėpėsi pilna gyvybės siela, kuri, dar jauna būdama, skaudžiai patyrė, kokia menka yra materialinių gėrybių vertė,...

She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play

This supreme instance of Troy’s goodness fell upon Gabriel’s ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.

To see persons looking with children’s eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience…

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.

He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

He had just reached the time of life at which ‘young’ is ceasing to be the prefix of ‘man’ in speaking of one. He was at the brightest period of masculine life, for his intellect...

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!

He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had before known but darkly – the seasons in their moods, morning...

Don’t that make your bosom plim?

To sorrow I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind. I would deceive her, And...

But I wish to be enlightened.”Let me caution you against it.”Is enlightenment on the subject, then, so terrible?”Yes, indeed.’She laughingly declared that nothing could have so piqued her curiosity as his statement.

It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to...

Life with a man is more businesslike after it, and money matters work better. And then, you see, if you have rows, and he turns you out of doors, you can get the law to...

She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct.

She was of the stuff of which great men’s mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.

I won’t be a slave to the past. I’ll love where I choose.

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.

I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am. I doubt if I have anything more for my present...

She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the red interior of her mouth as if it had been a snake’s. She had stretched one...

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession; with totally differing aims the method is the...

Jude leaped out of arm’s reach, and walked along the trackway weeping–not from the pain, though that was keen enough; not from the perception of the flaw in the terrestrial scheme, by which what was...

Her experience had been of a kind to teach her, rightly or wrongly, that the doubtful honor of a brief transit through a sorry world hardly called for effusiveness, even when the path was suddenly...

You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

‘Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘All like ours?’ ‘I don’t know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and...

She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.

People who have always gone right don’t know half as much about the nature and ways of going right as those do who have gone wrong.

I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!

You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any moderately penetrating mind–monsters to which those of the oceans bear no sort of comparison.”What monsters may they...

It takes two or three generations to do what I tried to do in one; and my impulses–affections–vices perhaps they should be called– were too strong not to hamper a man without advantages; who should...

Deeds of endurance, which seem ordinary in philosophy, are rare in conduct.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that’s saying a good deal.

Sometimes a woman’s love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn’t...

I. At TeaTHE kettle descants in a cosy drone,And the young wife looks in her husband’s face,And then in her guest’s, and shows in her ownHer sense that she fills an envied place;And the visiting...

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...

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of...

This good-fellowship—camaraderie—usually occurring through similarity of pursuits, is unfortunately seldom superadded to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labours, but in their pleasures merely.

The people who had turned their heads turned them again as the service proceeded; and at last observing her they whispered to each other. She knew what their whispers were about, grew sick at heart,...

Tess Durbeyfield, in quell’epoca della sua vita, era solo un recipiente di emozioni non ancora colorite dall’esperienza

Better to choose a limit capriciously than to have none.

Such women as you a hundred men always convet – your eyes will only bewitch scores on scores into the unvailing fancy for you – you can only marry one of that many. Out of...

Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences.

…our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

What a grand revenge you have taken! I saw you innocent, and I deceived you. Four years after, you find me a Christian enthusiast; you then work upon me, perhaps to my complete perdition! But...

Cultivate the art of renunciation.

Always wanting another man than your own.