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“Having begun to love you, I love you for ever—in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Once victim, always victim—that's the law!”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Far from the Madding Crowd
“Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Far from the Madding Crowd
“An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Far from the Madding Crowd
“However, our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Every successful man is more or less a selfish man.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Jude the Obscure
“When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Far from the Madding Crowd
“Some folk want their luck buttered.”
Thomas Hardy
,
The Mayor of Casterbridge
“Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?”
Thomas Hardy
,
The Return of the Native
“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Far from the Madding Crowd
“My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession”
Thomas Hardy
,
Far from the Madding Crowd
“Not guessing the cause, there was nothing to remind him that experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's licence to receive it.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Jude the Obscure
“I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“So do flux and reflux—the rhythm of change—alternate and persist in everything under the sky.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Beauty to her, as to all who have felt, lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“You have never loved me as I love you—never—never! Yours is not a passionate heart—your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite—not a woman!”
Thomas Hardy
,
Jude the Obscure
“The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Jude the Obscure
“Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Don't think of what's past! . . . I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what to-morrow has in store?”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Do you know that I have undergone three-quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“A blaze of love, and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.”
Thomas Hardy
,
The Return of the Native
“I shall do one thing in this life—one thing certain—that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Far from the Madding Crowd
“You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Jude the Obscure
“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Far from the Madding Crowd
“Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch...”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?”
Thomas Hardy
,
Jude the Obscure
“Why didn't you tell me there was danger in men-folk? Why didn't you warn me? Ladies know what to fend hands against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance o' learning in that way, and you did not help me!”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“The perfect woman, you see, was a working woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who used her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Jude the Obscure
“And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be—and whenever I look up there will be you.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Far from the Madding Crowd
“to say a little is often to tell more than to say a great deal.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Far from the Madding Crowd
“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Far from the Madding Crowd
“Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.”
Thomas Hardy
,
The Return of the Native
“The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Far from the Madding Crowd
“The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Far from the Madding Crowd
“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.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Far from the Madding Crowd
“She's brim full of poetry—actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She LIVES what paper-poets only write...”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct—not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Far from the Madding Crowd
“Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Distinction does not consist in the facile use of a contemptible set of conventions, but in being numbered among those who are true, and honest, and just, and pure, and lovely, and of good report”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon and stars were as ardent as they.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Far from the Madding Crowd
“In making even horizontal and clear inspections we colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Far from the Madding Crowd
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