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Top 500 Thomas Hardy Quotes (2025 Update)
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Thomas Hardy Quote: “But now that her moral sorrows were passing away a fresh one arose.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “I determined you should come; and you have come! I have shown my power.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Ah, a time of his life shall come when he will have to repent, and think wretchedly of the pain he has caused another man; and then may he ache, and wish, and curse, and yearn – as I do now!”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “He had passed through an ordeal of wretchedness which had given him more than it had taken away. He had lost all he possessed of worldly property; he had sunk from his modest elevation down to a lower ditch than that from which he had started; but he had now a dignified calm he had never known before and that indifference to fate. And thus the abasement had been an exaltation and the loss gain.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Durbeyfield was what was locally called a slack-twisted fellow; he had good strength to work at times; but the times could not be relied on to coincide with the hours of requirement; and, having been unaccustomed to the regular toil of the day-labourer, he was not particularly persistent when they did so coincide.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Perhaps in no minor point does a woman astonish her helpmate more than in the strange power she possesses of believing cajoleries that she knows to be false – except indeed in that of being utterly skeptical on strictures that she knows to be true.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “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 her – doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “We are acting by the letter; and ’the letter killeth.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “We have missed because we tried to miss, I suppose.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Strange to say of a woman in full bloom and vigor, she always allowed her interlocutors to finish their statements before rejoining with hers.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Tess shrank into herself as if she had been struck. Often enough had he tried to reach those lips against her consent – often had he said gaily that her mouth and breath tasted of the butter and eggs and milk and honey on which she mainly lived, that he drew sustenance from them, and other follies of that sort. But he did not care for them now.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Your worldly failure, if you have failed, is to your credit rather than to your blame. Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “The fact that four centuries had neither proved it to be founded on a mistake, inspired any hatred of its purpose, nor given rise to any reaction that had battered it down, invested this simple grey effort of old minds with a repose, if not a grandeur, which a too curious reflection was apt to disturb in its ecclesiastical and military compeers.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “One’s pretty lively when ruined.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “The lad stood before Durbeyfield, and contemplated his length from crown to toe.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “The chief pleasure connected with asking an opinion lies in not adopting it.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “He knew he should go to see her again, according to her invitation. Those earnest men he read of, the saints, whom Sue, with gentle irreverence, called his demi-gods, would have shunned such encounters if they doubted their own strength. But he could not. He might fast and pray during the whole interval, but the human was more powerful in him than the Divine.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “She is a bold and passionate woman, fighting to earn respect as a farm owner and over the course of the novel she has to endure much suffering, which enhances her better qualities while diminishing some elements of her less admirable traits.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost a palpable movement.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “By experience”, says Roger Ascham, “we find out a short way by a long wandering.” Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “And all this while the subtle-souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in a room, and blinking at the candle; why things around her had taken the shape they wore in preference to every other possible shape.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “No. When I want a broad-minded opinion for general enlightenment, distinct from special advice, I never go to a man who deals in the subject professionally.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “The fact is,” said d’Uberville drily, “whatever your dear husband believed you accept, and whatever he rejected you reject, without the least inquiry or reasoning on your own part. That’s just like you women. Your mind is enslaved to his.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “That’s a handsome maid,” he said to Oak. “But she has her faults,” said Gabriel. “True, farmer.” “And the greatest of them is – well, what it is always.” “Beating people down? ay, ‘tis so.” “O no.” “What, then?” Gabriel, perhaps a little piqued by the comely traveller’s indifference, glanced back to where he had witnessed her performance over the hedge, and said, “Vanity.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. The scales are balanced so nicely that a feather would turn them.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Ah, want of an object to live for – that’s all is the matter with me!”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “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 converted!”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “I think of people more kindly when I am away from them.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “I have been thinking,” she continued, still in the tone of one brimful of feeling, “that the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies...”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “He read whenever he could as he walked to and from his work.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Had Philip’s warlike son been intellectually so far ahead as to have attempted civilisation without bloodshed, he would have been twice the godlike hero that he seemed; but nobody would have heard of an Alexander.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Love begins with a sense of superior discernment.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “I object to that conversation!” interposed the old woman. “I was not capable enough to hear what I said, and what is said out of my hearing is not evidence.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Time enough to cry when you know ’tis a crying matter; ’tis bad to meet troubles half-way.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Your next world is your next world, and not to be squandered offhand.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “The inspection of these chasms brought him a second pulsation of that old horror which he had used to describe to Viviette as produced in him by bottomlessness in the north heaven. The ghostly finger of limitless vacancy touched him now on the other side.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “It was a fatal omission of Boldwood’s that he had never once told her she was beautiful.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Decisive action is seen by appreciative minds to be frequently objectless, and sometimes fatal; but decision, however suicidal, has more charm for a woman than the most unequivocal Fabian success.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “When shall the saner softer polities Whereof we dream, have play in each proud land, And patriotism, grown Godlike, scorn to stand Bondslave to realms, but circle earth and seas?”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Tess had never before known a time in which the thread of her life was so distinctly twisted of two strands, positive pleasure and positive pain.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Allow me to come with you,’ he said, accompanying her to the door, and again showing by his behaviour how much he was impressed with her. His influence over her had vanished with the musical chords, and she turned her back upon him. ‘May I come?’ he repeated. ‘No, no. The distance is not a quarter of a mile – it is really not necessary, thank you,’ she said quietly. And.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Our moods meet in the wrong places.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Hastily flinging her cloak around her she opened the door and followed, putting out the candles as if she were never coming back. The rain was over and the night was now clear.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Possibly she would go on inflicting such pains again and again, and grieving for the sufferer again and again, in all her colossal inconsistency.”
Thomas Hardy Quote: “Between himself and her there was that kind of division which is more insurmountable than enmity; for estrangements produced by good judgment will last when those of feeling break down in smiles. Not the lovers who part in passion, but the lovers who part in friendship, are those who most frequently part forever.”
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