Tess Of The D Urbervilles Quotes

Tess Of The D Urbervilles Quotes by Thomas Hardy, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Stephen Hawking and many others.

Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom

Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?
Thomas Hardy
While there’s life, there’s hope.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
Thomas Hardy
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 not so entirely unknown to the “betrayed” as some amiable theorists would have us believe.
Thomas Hardy
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.
Thomas Hardy
While there’s life, there is hope.
Stephen Hawking
This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?
Thomas Hardy
Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?
Thomas Hardy
My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.
Thomas Hardy
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Thomas Hardy
Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.
Thomas Hardy
Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.
Thomas Hardy