Far From the Madding Crowd Quotes

"I hate to be thought men's property in that way—though possibly I shall be had some day." (4.39)

[He] could form no decided opinion upon her looks, her position being almost beneath his eye, so that he saw her in a bird's eye view, as Milton's Satan first saw Paradise. (2.22)

Love, being an extremely exacting usurer (a sense of exorbitant profit spiritually, as that of exorbitant profit bodily or materially is at the bottom of those of lower atmosphere) every morning Oa...

"But what between the poor men I won't have, and the rich men who won't have me, I stand forlorn as a pelican in the wilderness." (9.52)

"And so you see 'twas beautiful ale, and wished to value his kindness as much as I could, and not to be so ill-mannered as to drink only a thimbleful, which would have been insulting the man's gene...

[A] small swing looking-glass was disclosed, in which she proceeded to survey herself attentively. She parted her lips, and smiled. (1.13)

"I can ride on the other [saddle]: trust me." (2.31)

The instinctive act of human-kind was to stand, and listen, and learn how the trees on the right and the trees on the left wailed or chanted to each other in the regular antiphonies of a cathedral...