Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

Always wanting another man than your own.

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.

That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!

She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.

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.

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.