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Thomas Hardy Quote: “I have nobody in the world to fight my battles for me; but no mercy is shown. Yet if a thousand of you sneer and say things against me, I will not be put down!”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “To speak like a book I once read, wet weather is the narrative, and fine days are the episodes, of our country’s history;.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “I have danced at your skittish heels, my beautiful Bathsheba, for many a long mile and many a long day.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “I thought you were the ghost of yourself.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon ans stars were as ardent as they.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “You are nothing to me – nothing,” said Troy, heartlessly. “A ceremony before a priest doesn’t make a marriage. I am not morally yours.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “O no. You should lift Marian! Such a lump. You are like an undulating billow warmed by the sun. And all this fluff of muslin about you is the froth.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Enough that in the present case, as in millions, it was not the two halves of a perfect whole that confronted each other at the perfect moment; a missing counterpart wandered independently about the earth waiting in crass obtuseness till the late time came.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “She looked towards the western sky, which was now aglow like some vast foundry wherein new worlds were cast.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “The rain stretched obliquely through the dull atmosphere in liquid spines, unbroken in continuity between their beginnings in the clouds and their points in him.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Humanity appears upon the scene, hand in hand with trouble.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Sheer experience had already taught her that in some circumstances there was one thing better than to lead a good life, and that was to be saved from leading any life whatever.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Such miserable creatures of circumstance are we all!”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “I have seen your mother; and I will never see her again!”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Henchard, like all his kind, was superstitious, and he could not help thinking that the concatenation of events this evening had produced was the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked that she was, and forgot that the defective can more than the entire.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Do I realize solemnly enough how utterly and irretrievably this little womanly thing is the creature of my good or bad faith and fortune? I think not. I think I could not, unless I were a woman myself. What I am in worldly estate, she is. What I become, she must become. What I cannot be, she cannot be. And shall I ever neglect her, or hurt her, or even forget to consider her? God forbid such a crime!”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “And from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no great claim on the world’s room, Oak walked unassumingly and with a faintly perceptible bend, yet distinct from a bowing of the shoulders.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “And yet you take away the one little ewe-lamb of pleasure that I have in this dull life of mine. Well, perhaps generosity is not a woman’s most marked characteristic.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “This good-fellowship – camaraderie – usually occurring through similarity of pursuits, is unfortunately seldom superadded to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labours, but in their pleasures merely.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “She was in person full-limbed and somewhat heavy; without ruddiness, as without pallor; and soft to the touch as a cloud. To see her hair was to fancy that a whole winter did not contain darkness enough to form its shadow: it closed over her forehead like nightfall extinguishing the western glow.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “In heaven she will probably sit between the Heloises and the Cleopatras.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “That the man and woman were husband and wife, and the parents of the girl in arms there could be little doubt. No other than such relationship would have accounted for the atmosphere of stale familiarity which the trio carried along with them like a nimbus as they moved down the.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “These and other of his words were nothing but the perfunctory babble of the surface while the depths remained paralyzed.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “What was the past to me as soon as I met you? It was a dead thing altogether. I became another woman, filled full of new life from you. How could I be the early one? Why do you not see this? Dear, if you would only be a little more conceited, and believe in yourself so far as to see that you was strong enough to work this change in me, you would perhaps be in a mind to come to me, your poor wife.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “She went stealthily as a cat through this profusion of growth, gathering cuckoo-spittle on her skirts, cracking snails that were underfoot, staining her hands with thistle-milk and slug-slime, and rubbing off upon her naked arms sticky blights which, though snow-white on the apple-tree trunks, made madder stains on her skin; thus she drew quite near to Clare, still unobserved of him.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “She had been made to break an accepted social law, but no law known to the environment in which she fancied herself such an anomaly.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods, that she seemed least solitary... She had no fear of the shadows; her sole idea seemed to be to shun mankind – or rather that cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Events did not rhyme quite as he had thought.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “War makes rattling good history.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “But since ’tis as ’tis, why, it might have been worse, and I feel my thanks accordingly.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction – every kind of evidence in the logician’s list – have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite alone.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven’t they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-‘Why do ye trouble me with your looks?’ And you seem to see numbers of to-morrows just all in a line, the first of them the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand further away; but they all seem very fierce and cruel and as if they said, ‘I’m coming! Beware of me! Beware of me!”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “You are a chameleon, and now you are at your worst colour. Go home, or I shall hate you!”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “I think that whenever children be born that are not wanted they should be killed directly, before their souls come to ’em, and not allowed to grow big and walk about!”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Those who have the power of reproaching in silence may find it a means more effective than words. There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “While there’s life there’s hope is a conviction not so entirely unknown to the “betrayed” as some amiable theorists would have us believe.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “He admired her so much that he used to light the candle three times a night to look at her.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “He had sunk from his modest elevation as pastoral king into the very slime pits of Siddim; but 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. And thus the abasement had been exaltation, and the loss gain.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Very well,” said Oak, firmly, with the bearing of one who was going to give his days and nights to Ecclesiastes for ever.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “The highest architectural cunning could have done nothing to make Hintock House dry and salubrious; and ruthless ignorance could have done little to make it unpicturesque. It was vegetable nature’s own home; a spot to inspire the painter and poet of still life – if they did not suffer too much from the relaxing atmosphere – and to draw groans from the gregariously disposed.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “By experience,” says Roger Ascham, “we find out a short way by a long wandering.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “The pair were, in truth, but the ashes of their former fires. To the hot sorrow of the previous night had succeeded heaviness; it seemed as if nothing could kindle either of them to fervour of sensation any more.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “No average man will molest a woman by day or night, at home or abroad, unless she invites him. Until she says by a look “Come on” he is always afraid to, and if you never say it, or look it, he never comes.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “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 Quote: “The floating pollen seemed to be his notes made visible, and the dampness of the garden the weeping of the garden’s sensibility.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “The time seems near, if it has not actually arrived, when the chastened sublimity of a moor, a sea, or a mountain will be all of nature that is absolutely in keeping with the moods of the more thinking among mankind.”
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