Quotes from Thomas Hardy

En la imperfecta ordenación de las cosas del mundo rara vez surge la criatura invocada; rara vez el hombre digno de ser amado coincide con la hora de amar.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. 

Láska, tÃ…â"¢ebaže znamená zvýÅ¡ené city, znamená i sníženou rozumovou schopnost.

Anche tra gli individui più soggetti agli sbalzi d'umore, l'inclinazione a rincuorarsi appare più forte di quella a deprimersi; e il peso specifico dell'anima invariabilmente si conferma inferiore rispetto a quello del mare di angosce in cui essa è precipitata.

Shledávám, že nad smrt je trp?í žena, jejíž srdce je plno osidel a sítí.

However, it is so sometimes, and nothing happens that we expect, he added, with the repose of a man whom misfortune had inured rather than subdued.

Thus Casterbridge was in most respects but the pole, focus, or nerve-knot of the surrounding country life; differing from the many manufacturing towns which are as foreign bodies set down, like boulders on a plain, in a green world with which they have nothing in common.

The mistake of expressing them had arisen from his allowing himself to be influenced by general principles to the disregard of the particular instance.

up her face to argue a point with a tall man, suggested that there was potentiality enough in that lithe slip of humanity for alarming exploits of sex, and daring enough to carry them out. But

She became more or less red in the cheek, the blood wavering in uncertain flux and reflux over the sensitive space between ebb and flood. Gabriel sheared on, constrained and sad.

Attraverso l'esperienza dice Roger AScham troviamo una via breve dopo un lungo errare. Non di rado questo lungo errare ci rende incapaci di sostenere un ulteriore viaggio; e allora di che utilità è la nostra esperienza?

some women only require an emergency to make them fit for one.

a little calf, about a day old, looking idiotically at the two women, which showed that it had not long been accustomed to the phenomenon of eyesight, and often turning to the lantern, which it mistook for the moon, inherited instinct having as yet had little time for correction by experience.

He won't hurt me. HE'S not in love with me.

THE ONLY superiority in women that is tolerable to the rival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind; but a superiority which recognizes itself may sometimes please by suggesting possibilities of capture to the subordinated man.

in his view there could come of his interference nothing worse than what existed at present. And yet to every bad there is a worse.

His dog waited for his meals in a way so like that in which Oak waited for the girl's presence, that the farmer was quite struck with the resemblance, felt it lowering, and would not look at the dog. However, he continued to watch through the hedge for her regular coming, and thus his sentiments towards her were deepened without any corresponding effect being produced upon herself.

Ay, I'm a poor man—a poor gentleman, in fact: those I would be friends with, won't be friends with me; those who are willing to be friends with me, I am above being friends with.

the voice was unexpectedly attractive...common in descriptions, rare in experince.

Tuttavia era in quella valle che il suo dolore aveva preso forma e Tess non l'amava più come in passato; la bellezza per lei, come per tutti quelli che hanno esperienza, non stava nelle cose, ma in ciò che le cose simboleggiavano.

Per quanto contraddittorio possa sembrare, non c'è nulla di più vero che chi ha sempre fatto la scelta giusta non sa nemmeno la metà sulla natura e i modi di operare la scelta giusta, di chi ha fatto le scelte sbagliate.

looking-glasses for the pretty, and lying books for the wicked.

Cerealia. It

È senza dubbio una disgrazia per un uomo che deve procurarsi da vivere, nascere con una natura realmente nobile. Un animo elevato condurrà un uomo all'ospizio di mendicità.