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Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.

you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.

Such miserable creatures of circumstance are we all!

To be lectured because the lecturer saw her in the cold morning light of open-shuttered disillusion was exasperating.

She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct.

Though it may be right to care more for the benefit of the many than for the indulgence of your own single self, when you consider that the many, and duty to them, only exist to you through your own existence, what can be said?

The pale lunar touches which make beauties of hags lent divinity to this face, already beautiful.

Tis my belief she's a very good woman at bottom." "She's terrible deep, then.

but there was left to him a dignified calm he had never before known, and that indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

December morning—sunny and exceedingly mild—might have regarded Gabriel

Every desired renewal of an existence is debased by being half alloy.

This was a practical application of the principle that a half-feigned and fictitious faith is better than no faith at all.

The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

The Sinister Spirit sneered: 'It had to be!' And again the Spirit of Pity whispered, 'Why?

People say I must be cold–natured—sexless—on account of it. But I won't have it! Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self–contained in their daily lives.

there was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him.

She had the passions and instincts which make a model goddess, that is, those which make not quite a model woman.

but it is without a doubt a misfortune for a man who has a living to get, to be born of a truly noble nature. A high soul will bring a man to the workhouse... A Pair of Blue Eyes

Bathsheba, though she had too much understanding to be entirely governed by her womanliness, had too much womanliness to use her understanding to the best advantage.

Well, because it is provokingly wrong. I am a sort of negation of it. You are very philosophical. 'A negation' is profound talking.

Five years, nine months, and a few days. Fifteen months nearly have passed since he vanished, and is there anything so wonderful in an engagement of little more than five years?

That's why I say that a woman so charming as yourself, Miss Everdene, is hardly a blessing to her race.

O merciful God, have pity; have pity upon my poor baby! she cried. Heap as much anger as you want to upon me, and welcome; but pity the child!

he'd seen a man look a fool a good many times, but never such a fool as that bull looked when he found his pious feelings had been played upon...