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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
“Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says some women may feel?”
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
“his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Jude the Obscure
“My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.”
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
“However, our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.”
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
“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
“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
“So do flux and reflux—the rhythm of change—alternate and persist in everything under the sky.”
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
“Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?”
Thomas Hardy
,
The Return of the Native
“Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.”
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
“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
“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
“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
“some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.”
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
“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
“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
“Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid”
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
“All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Jude the Obscure
“I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming...”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Some folk want their luck buttered.”
Thomas Hardy
,
The Mayor of Casterbridge
“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
“All romances end at marriage.”
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
“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
“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
“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
“Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?”
Thomas Hardy
,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.”
Thomas Hardy
,
The Return of the Native
“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
“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
“Every successful man is more or less a selfish man.”
Thomas Hardy
,
Jude the Obscure
“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
“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
“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
“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
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