Tess of the d'Urbervilles Quotes.

1. "Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it, Tess?" murmured Abraham through his tears."
- Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

2. "Nature does not often say "See!" to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply "Here!" to a body's cry of "Where?"
- Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

3. "Are you in want of anything?" he said gently. "No, sir," she replied. "We are fairly well provided for."
- Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

4. "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, Tess of the D'Urbervilles

5. "Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized."
- Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles

6. "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 sound - a few blighted." "Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?" "A blighted one."
- Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles

7. "Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?"
- Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles

8. "Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!"
- Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles

9. "Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…"
- Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles

10. "If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed."
- Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles