Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.
You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.
Bless thy simplicity, Tess
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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.