Adam Bede quotes

I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish: God Almighty made ’em to match the men.

on’y it was a pity he couldna be hatched o’er again, an’ hatched different.

There’s a sort of wrong that can never be made up for.

therefore let us always have men ready to give the loving pains of a life to the faithful representing of commonplace things—men who see beauty in these commonplace things, and delight in showing how kindly the light of heaven falls on them.

I did do it, Dinah... I buried it in the wood... the little baby... and it cried... I heard it cry...