Tess of the D'Urbervilles

By Thomas Hardy

QUOTATION: “Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the d’Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
The End
ATTRIBUTION: Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), British novelist, poet. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, ch. LIX (1891).

QUOTATION: Once victim, always victim—that’s the law!
ATTRIBUTION: Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), British novelist, poet. Tess, in Tess of the D’Urbervilles, ch. 47 (1891).

QUOTATION: Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
ATTRIBUTION: Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), British novelist, poet. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, ch. 43 (1891).

QUOTATION: Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
ATTRIBUTION: Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), British novelist, poet. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, ch. 43 (1891).

QUOTATION: Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
ATTRIBUTION: Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), British novelist, poet. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, ch. 43 (1891).

QUOTATION: That cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units.
ATTRIBUTION: Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), British novelist, poet. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, ch. 13 (1891).

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