Quotes from Thomas Hardy

In short, he was twenty-eight, and a bachelor.

It was not exactly the fault of the hut, she observed in a tone which showed her to be that novelty among women—one who finished a thought before beginning the sentence which was to convey it.

Il cuore di un amante è paragonabile alle ere geologiche della terra, come ci è stato talvolta descritto dal nostro illustre Presidente; un carbone prima ardente, poi caldo, poi una cenere tiepida, poi fredda.

Perfect, he, as a lover, might have called them off-hand. But no – they were not perfect. and it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity." Tess of the d'Urbervilles

All that silence and absence of goings-on is the stillness of infinite motion.

Kdyby byl úsp?šným ?lovÄ›kem, zažil by úlek, avÅ¡ak neÅ¡tÄ›stí je krásným opiátem pro osobní strach.

Good, but not religious-good.

Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be, It exacts a full look at the Worst.

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

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.

Geoffrey's own heart felt inconveniently large just then.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Aspects are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons!

Poetry is emotion put into measure.

Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?