Quotes About Bathsheba

#1. I have dealt with the poor, Bathsheba. They need a great deal, but I do not believe they feel any great want for aristocratic females dressed in the latest stare of fashion telling them they are proud, vain, and licentious.

Loretta Chase

#2. There are occasions when girls like Bathsheba will put up with a great deal of unconventional behavior. When they want to be praised, which is often; when they want to be mastered, which is sometimes; and when they want no nonsense, which is seldom.

Thomas Hardy

#3. By making inquiries he found that the girl's name was Bathsheba Everdene, and that the cow would go dry in about seven days. He dreaded the eighth day.

Thomas Hardy

#4. Oak was just thinking that whatever he
himself might have suffered from Bathsheba's marriage, here was a
man who had suffered more, when Boldwood spoke in a changed
voice - that of one who yearned to make a confidence and relieve his
heart by an outpouring.

Thomas Hardy

#5. Bathsheba! to whom none ever said scat- No worthier cat Ever sat on a mat, Or caught a rat. Requiescat!

John Greenleaf Whittier

#6. She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath.

Thomas Hardy

#7. The difference between love and respect was markedly shown in her conduct. Bathsheba had spoken of her interest in Boldwood with the greatest freedom to Liddy, but she only communed with her own heart concerning Troy.

Thomas Hardy

#8. I have danced at your skittish heels, my beautiful Bathsheba, for many a long mile and many a long day.

Thomas Hardy

#9. Dazzled by brass and scarlet - O, Bathsheba - this is a woman's folly indeed!

Thomas Hardy

#10. Katniss Everdeen owes her last name to Bathsheba Everdene, the lead character in 'Far From the Madding Crowd.' The two are very different, but both struggle with knowing their hearts.

Suzanne Collins

#11. The question is not what was different about Bathsheba. The difference was what had become different about David.

Johnny Hunt

#12. I'll make you eat those words."
"You are very welcome to try," she whispered. Her attempt at cockiness had turned breathy and yearning. "Please, try very hard."
A smile lit his hard features. "Trust me, that will be entirely my pleasure.

Thea Harrison

#13. Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't be yours?'
'That's the very thing I say to myself,' said Gabriel.

Thomas Hardy

#14. There are considerations even before my consideration for you; reparations to be made-ties you know nothing of. If you repent of marrying, so do I.

Thomas Hardy

#15. We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

Warren Buffett

#16. It is not proper, you being closeted up here with him
"
"Delphinia, don't be absurd. I am so firmly on the shelf that the maids are tempted to dust me.

Meredith Duran

#17. When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.

Roddy Doyle

#18. On her extreme thinness during her 'Ally McBeal' years: I started under-eating, over-exercising, pushing myself too hard and brutalizing my immune system. I guess I just didn't find time to eat. I am much more healthy these days.

Calista Flockhart

#19. She wanted her own time her own life her own set of eyes.

Jasmine Sandozz

#20. Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

Victor Hugo

#21. You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always

Thomas Hardy

#22. Never forget who you are or where you have come from while being found by others

Bathsheba Dailey

#23. A new beginning is better than an old ending

Bathsheba Dailey

#24. Henry,that's how you get rid of fleas. You keep them from laying eggs. You go to war with them.

Jason Jack Miller

#25. Never take the first brick out of the wall unless you know it is meant to fall

Bathsheba Dailey

#26. But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

Thomas Hardy

#27. Selling scent is a key job for celebrities. At any one time, there'll be hundreds of them at it, going on the world's talk shows, doing photo-shoots, providing employment for thousands. Celebrities are instant brands.

Peter York

#28. He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.

Thomas Hardy

#29. If you have the strength to stay, you have the power to leave

Bathsheba Dailey

#30. I cud feal some thing growing in me it wer like a grean sea surging in me it wer saying, LOSE IT. Saying, LET GO. Saying, THE ONLYES POWER IS NO POWER
The ruins of Canterbury Castle

Russell Hoban

#31. We don't have to talk about Zsadist.
That's okay. He's the most interesting part of me.

J.R. Ward

#32. Always remember who you are and where you have come from while in the process of being found by others

Bathsheba Dailey

#33. You cannot move forward if you are always thinking backwards

Bathsheba Dailey

#34. It's easy to criticize context (circumstances and situation) you've never experienced

Steven Furtick