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Far from the Madding Crowd quotes

Thomas Hardy

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“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
“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
“to say a little is often to tell more than to say a great deal.” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“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
“The only superiority in women that is tolerable to the rival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you never will know.” 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
“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
“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
“All romances end at marriage.” 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
“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
“even the most timid women sometimes acquire a relish for the dreadful when that is amalgamated with a little triumph” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“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 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
“Sanguine by nature, Troy had a power of eluding grief by simply adjourning it. He could put off the consideration of any particular spectre till the matter had become old and softened by time.” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“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
“Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.” 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
“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
“I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.” 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
“The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all.” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man; but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly seek. Where there is much bias there must be some narrowness, and love, though added emotion, is...” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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