Far from the Madding Crowd

Gabriel Oak:
At home by the fire, whenever I look up, there you will be. And whenever you look up, there I shall be.

Bathsheba Everdene:
[to her farmhands] There's ten shillings for anyone who wants to stay, and no hard words for anyone who wants to go.

Bathsheba Everdene:
[to her workers] Don't anyone suppose that because I'm a woman, I don't understand the difference between bad goings-on and good. I shall be up before you're awake, I shall be afield before you're up, and I shall have breakfasted before you're afield. In short, I shall astonish you all.

Bathsheba Everdene:
I've been checking the records. We've never had so many lambs come to maturity as this year. Not ever.

Gabriel Oak:
Well, we've been lucky, Ma'am.

Bathsheba Everdene:
I'VE been lucky!

Sgt. Francis 'Frank' Troy:
[to Bathsheba] A woman like you does more damage than she can conceivably imagine.

Joseph Poorgrass:
[Very drunk] Well, I got a slight attack of the multiplying eye.

Sgt. Francis 'Frank' Troy:
[to Bathsheba] This woman is more to me dear than you ever were... or are... or could be.

Liddy:
[about Boldwood] He is married to his farm. That's the truth of it.

Temperence:
There's no woman can touch him, Miss. 'Tis said he has no passionate parts.

Boy practicing prayer on way to church walking near Bathsheba as she is waking up in the woods.:
Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness. And put upon us the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life... Author: The Revd Dr Peter Toon, The Book of the Common Prayer 1549. For the four weeks of Advent.