"Adam Bede" Quotes
"Adam Bede" explores the moral dilemmas and personal growth of a rural carpenter whose life is upended by love, betrayal, and tragedy in nineteenth-century England.
classics | 590 pages | Published in 2008
Quotes
Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.
A woman may get to love by degrees—the best fire does not flare up the soonest.
It's never too late to mend.
Thee'st allays ready enough at prayin', but I doubt th' idle words run along an' off thy tongue, till they're like the prayers o' folks as say 'em by rote, wi'out tumblin' upstairs, an' downstairs, an' into all the corners, just as if they come straight from th' heart.
It's little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crop.
What I say is, nobody'd ever anything if they didn't take to it themselves.
Only be sure it's a right thing to do; else what's the use of my being a workman any longer?
People will say anything to get somebody off their back.
We're poor bodies as have to grub and slave for a bit o' victual, just about as if we was black ants a-carrying our eggs out o' harm’s way.
She applauded the way in which you had been able to take such brilliant care of her son. 'But I'm not sure that I have enough care left for myself to make me worth anything as a wife.
