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Thomas Hardy Quote: “The real sin ma’am, in my mind lies in thinking of ever wedding with a man you don’t love honest and true.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Don’t for God’s sake speak as saint to sinner, but as you yourself to me myself – poor me!”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “My dear Sue, – Of course I wish you joy! And also of course I will give you away. What I suggest is that, as you have no house of your own, you do not marry from your school friend’s, but from mine. It would be more proper, I think, since I am, as you say, the person nearest related to you in this part of the world. I don’t see why you sign your letter in such a new and terribly formal way? Surely you care a bit about me still! – Ever your affectionate, Jude.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “He had no wish to converse with her: that his bright lady and himself formed one group, exclusively their own, and containing no others in the world, was enough.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Their gauzy skirts had brushed up from the grass innumerable flies and butterflies which, unable to escape, remained caged in the transparent tissue as in an aviary.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “What a strange sort of love, to be entirely free from that quality of selfishness which is frequently the chief constituent of the passion, and sometimes it’s only one!”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “As for his look, it was a natural cheerfulness striving against depression without, and not quite succeeding. The look suggested issolation, but it revealed something more. As Usual with bright natures, the deity that lies ignominiously chained within a ephemeral human carcase shone out of him like a ray.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come within.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substitutions. Continually it had happened that what she had desired had not been granted her, and that what had been granted her she had not desired. So she viewed with an approach to equanimity the now cancelled days when Donald had been her undeclared lover, and wondered what unwished-for thing Heaven might send her in place of him.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “You were nothing to me once, and I was contented; you are now nothing to me again, and how different the second nothing is from the first! Would to God you had never taken me up, since it was only to throw me down!”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “The curious double strands in Farfrae’s thread of life – the commercial and the romantic – were very distinct at times. Like the colours in a variegated cord those contrasts could be seen intertwisted, yet not mingling.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Then he stood with his back to the fire regarding her, and saw in her almost a divinity.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “I hate to be what is called a clever girl – there are too many of that sort now!”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “He was to them like the poet of a new school who takes his contemporaries by storm; who is not really new, but is the first to articulate what all his listeners have felt, though but dumbly till then.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “And as each and all of them were warmed without by the sun, so each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, at least some remote and distant hope which, though perhaps starving to nothing, still lived on, as hopes will.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Rays of male vision seem to have a tickling effect upon virgin faces in rural districts;.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Thus, neither having the clue to the other’s secret, they were respectively puzzled at what each revealed, and awaited new knowledge of each other’s character and moods without attempting to pry into each other’s history.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “The tearful glimmer of the languid dawn’ was just sufficient to reveal to them the melancholy red leaves, lying thickly in the channels by the roadside, ever and anon loudly tapped on by heavy drops of water, which the boughs above had collected from the foggy air.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “That’s why I say that a woman so charming as yourself, Miss Everdene, is hardly a blessing to her race.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “The rain still continued, the candlelight falling upon the nearest drops and making glistening darts of them as they descended across the throng of invisible ones behind. To plunge into that medium was to plunge into water slightly diluted with air.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Cry about one thing in life, cry about all; one thread runs through the whole piece.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “She tried to pray to God, but it was her husband who really had her supplication. Her idolatry of this man was such that she herself almost feared it to be ill-omened. She was conscious of the notion expressed by Friar Lawerence, “These violent delights have violent ends.” It might be too desperate for human conditions – too rank, too wild, too deadly.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “But what is Wisdom really? A steady handling of any means to bring about any end necessary to happiness. Yet whether one’s end be the usual end – a wealthy position in life – or no, the name of wisdom is seldom applied but to the means to that usual end.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Eustacia, I don’t know where to look: my thoughts go through me like swords.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “The physiognomy of a deserted highway expresses solitude to a degree that is not reached by mere dales or downs, and bespeaks a tomb-like stillness more emphatic than that of glades and pools. The contrast of what is with what might be, probably accounts for this.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “And there was revived in her the wretched sentiment which had often come to her before, that in inhabiting the fleshly tabernacle with which Nature had endowed her she was somehow doing wrong.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “And the d’Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “What at night had been perfect and ideal was by day the more or less defective real.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “When sorrow ceases to be speculative sleep sees her opportunity.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “I should like the flowers very very much, if I didn’t keep on thinking they’d be all withered in a few days!”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “There are two ways of getting rid of sorrows: one by living them down, the other by drowning them. The coachman drowned his. He informed her that her luggage.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “He had, he verily believed, overcome all tendency to fly to liquor – which, indeed, he had never done from taste, but merely as an escape from intolerable misery of the mind.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “If these two noticed Angel’s growing social ineptness, he noticed their growing mental limitations. Felix seemed to him all Church; Cubbert all College... Each brother candidly recognized there were a few unimportant scores of millions outside in civilized society, persons who were neither University men nor churchmen; but they were to be tolerated rather than reckoned with and respected.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “A profile was visible against the dull monochrome of cloud around her; and it was as though side shadows from the features of Sappho and Mrs. Siddons had converged upwards from the tomb to form an image like neither but suggesting both.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Always wanting another man than your own.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover’s most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover’s most venial sin.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “The village was shutting its eyes. Candles and lamps were being put out everywhere: she could inwardly behold the extinguisher and the extended hand.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “A young woman’s face will turn the north wind, Master Richard: my heart if ’twon’t.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “That’s my fist.” Here he placed his fist, rather smaller in size than a common loaf, in the mathematical centre of the maltster’s little table, and with it gave a bump or two thereon, as if to ensure that their eyes all thoroughly took in the idea of fistiness before he went further.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “I hate such eccentricities, Sue. There’s no order or regularity in your sentiments!”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Clare knew that she loved him – every curve of her form showed that – but he did not know at that time the full depth of her devotion, its single-mindedness, its meekness; what long-suffering it guaranteed, what honesty, what endurance, what good faith.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “The daylight has nothing to show me, since you are not here, and I don’t like to see the rooks and starlings in the fields, because I grieve and grieve to miss you who used to see them with me. I long for only one thing in heaven or earth or under the earth, to meet you my own dear! Come to me – come to me, and save me from what threatens me! – Your faithful heartbroken.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “They seemed, like himself, to be living in a world which did not want them.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “His had been a love ’which alters when it alteration finds.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “He began to see that the town life was a book of humanity infinitely more palpitating, varied, and compendious than the gown life. These struggling men and women before him were the reality of Christminster, though they knew little of Christ or Minster. That was one of the humours of things. The floating population of students and teachers, who did know both in a way, were not Christminster in a local sense at all.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “I’ve been troubled with weak moments lately, ‘tis true. I’ve been drinky once this month already, and I did not go to church a-Sunday, and I dropped a curse or two yesterday; so I don’t want to go too far for my safety. Your next world is your next world, and not to be squandered offhand.” “I.”
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