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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
“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 is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?”
Thomas Hardy
,
The Return of the Native
“However, our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.”
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
“Once victim, always victim—that's the law!”
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Jude the Obscure
“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
“she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.”
Thomas Hardy
,
The Return of the Native
“some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.”
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
“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
“So do flux and reflux—the rhythm of change—alternate and persist in everything under the sky.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“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
“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
“Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“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
“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 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
“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
“This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don't you think so?”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“All romances end at marriage.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Far from the Madding Crowd
“Every successful man is more or less a selfish man.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Jude the Obscure
“Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says some women may feel?”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“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
“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
“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
“why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.”
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
“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
“Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“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
“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
“I may do some good before I am dead—be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story”
Thomas Hardy
,
Jude the Obscure
“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
“Some folk want their luck buttered.”
Thomas Hardy
,
The Mayor of Casterbridge
“I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!”
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
“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
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