Thomas Hardy Quotes
Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences.
An average woman is in this superior to an average man—that she never instigates, only responds.
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.
We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man, but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly seek.
If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard by accident a day or two later.
Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.
Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure.
being a harp which the least wind of emotion from another’s heart could make to vibrate as readily as a radical stir in her own.
I have sometimes thought--that under the affectation of independent views you are as enslaved to the social code as any woman I know!
You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always
If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.
She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.
Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.
To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience...
He's the man we were in search of, that's true, and yet he's not the man we were in search of. For the man we were in search of was not the man we wanted.
All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.
I looked up from my writing, And gave a start to see, As if rapt in my inditing, The moon's full gaze on me.
But there were certain early days in Casterbridge- days of firmamental exhaustion which followed angry south-westerly tempests-when, if the sun shone, the air was like velvet.
This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.
A half knowledge of another's life mostly does injustice to the life unknown.
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!
Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.
She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun.
I hate to be what is called a clever girl—there are too many of that sort now!
Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't be yours?''That's the very thing I say to myself, ' said Gabriel.
Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be It exacts a full look at the Worst.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved the Inquisition might have let him alone.
There is a good deal too strange to be believed nothing is too strange to have happened.
If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
