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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
“Every successful man is more or less a selfish man.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Jude the Obscure
“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
“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
“Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.”
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
“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
“If an offense come out of the truth, better it is that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“However, our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.”
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
“Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?”
Thomas Hardy
,
The Return of the Native
“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
“Once victim, always victim—that's the law!”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Jude the Obscure
“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
“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
“Meanwhile the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Far from the Madding Crowd
“So do flux and reflux—the rhythm of change—alternate and persist in everything under the sky.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“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 at the modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called 'having a fancy for.' It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.”
Thomas Hardy
,
The Return of the Native
“she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.”
Thomas Hardy
,
The Return of the Native
“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
“Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity, was now no longer a minor feature in Mrs Angel Clare; and it sustained her.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don't you think so?”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.”
Thomas Hardy
,
The Return of the Native
“All romances end at marriage.”
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
“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
“I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!”
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
“Some folk want their luck buttered.”
Thomas Hardy
,
The Mayor of Casterbridge
“She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“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
“The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Far from the Madding Crowd
“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
“That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power over her which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“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
“Mrs d'Urberville was not the first mother compelled to love her offspring resentfully, and to be bitterly fond.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“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
“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
“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
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