Tess Of The D Urbervilles Quotes

#1. What about fateful turns in your life? Naturalists like Thomas Hardy proposed that some people are simply born under 'a blighted star' like his heroine in Tess of the D'Urbervilles. If so, then no matter what we did, we couldn't improve our lives.

Roger Leslie

#2. The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'

Bartlett Sher

#3. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Johnny Got His Gun, A Farewell to Arms, A Prayer for Owen Meany, some years Wuthering Heights, Silas Marner, Their Eyes Were Watching God, or I Capture the Castle. Those books are like old friends. When

Gabrielle Zevin

#4. If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

Benjamin Disraeli

#5. Many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with. Its fate. What's meant to be will always find a way.

Clara Garcia

#6. Your lesson in this lifetime is to find and trust your own precious voice.

Elizabeth Lesser

#7. You temptress,Tess; you dear damned witch of Babylon- I could not resist you as soon as I met you again.

Thomas Hardy

#8. Don't for God's sake speak as saint to sinner, but as you yourself to me myself - poor me!

Thomas Hardy

#9. It was always women who did the choosing, and men's place was to be grateful if they were lucky enough to be the chosen ones. Joseph Anton

Salman Rushdie

#10. 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

#11. I wanna roll it, roll it, roll it, roll it. Is all I wanna do, for you baby. Girl, it's something kind of sexy. Goin' on about you babe.

R. Kelly

#12. Dany kissed him lightly on the cheek. It heartened her to see him smile. I must be strong for him as well, she thought grimly. A knight he may be, but I am the blood of the dragon.

George R R Martin

#13. Forgiveness doesn't work that way. You may want to forgive, but you can't do it yet. Forgiving someone can take weeks, months, years. Sometimes it takes a lifetime.

Anne Bishop

#14. -compost is trucked in; some crops also receive fish emulsion along with their water and a side dressing of pelleted chicken manure. Over the winter a cover crop of legumes is planted to build up nitrogen in the soil.

Michael Pollan

#15. Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

Gene Tierney

#16. And the d'Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing.

Thomas Hardy

#17. Had mankind listened to the Creator when he advised his children to never create his image, or give him a name, then humanity would not be so confused and divided in believing that every faith is worshiping a different god.

Suzy Kassem

#18. If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

Anton Chekhov

#19. It preyed on human desire and it paid off by sheer terror.

John Grisham

#20. 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

#21. If, in fact, it is what's inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside." ~ The Traveler's Gift

Andy Andrews

#22. Life has a whimsical way of kicking you in the throat. I find it to
be one huge cosmic joke at our expense, only nobody is laughing
but the forces that be - given that they are even a wee bit human.

Lori Goldson