"Tess of the D'Urbervilles" Quotes
"Tess of the D'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy is a tragic novel that follows the life of Tess Durbeyfield, a young woman whose life is marked by misfortune and societal injustice after discovering her noble ancestry.
classics | Published in 2003
Quotes
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true nature was its aspirations, its ideals.
What a fresh and virginal daughter of Nature that milkmaid is!
I don't quite feel easy... but I suppose it must be done sooner or later.
Once victim, always victim—that's the law!
A field-man is a personality afield; a field-woman is a portion of the field.
The greatest misfortune that might have befallen her was to have been born a woman.
Justice was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Aeschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess.
You were more sinned against than sinning, that I admit.
The river itself, which nourished the grass and cows of these renowned dairies, flowed not like a stream of the level land, but leaped and gurgled over the stones of a shallow weir.
Her hopes mingled with the sunshine, and with the air she breathed.
