Victorian Novel Quotes

“The roof was a gymnasium for the winds”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“Tess was carried along the wings of the hours”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it; and yet now when that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask myself if I believe it, and I cannot answer.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror: Penguin Classics

“Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children’s brains, but strangely impressive.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre