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.

- Julie Christie (as Bathsheba) in Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)

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.

- Julie Christie (as Bathsheba) in Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)

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!

- Julie Christie (as Bathsheba) in Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)

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

- Alan Bates (as Gabriel Oak) in Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)