Quotes About Thomas Hardy

but it is without a doubt a misfortune for a man who has a living to get, to be born of a truly noble nature. A high soul will bring a man to the workhouse... A Pair of Blue Eyes

Bathsheba, though she had too much understanding to be entirely governed by her womanliness, had too much womanliness to use her understanding to the best advantage.

And then her cooing voice, plaintive in expostulation, disturbed the darkness, the velvet touch of her lips passed over his brow, and he could distinguish in the air the warmth of her breath.

How did this remarkable reappearance effect itself when he was supposed by many to be at the bottom of the sea?

Well, because it is provokingly wrong. I am a sort of negation of it. You are very philosophical. 'A negation' is profound talking.

Five years, nine months, and a few days. Fifteen months nearly have passed since he vanished, and is there anything so wonderful in an engagement of little more than five years?

That's why I say that a woman so charming as yourself, Miss Everdene, is hardly a blessing to her race.

O merciful God, have pity; have pity upon my poor baby! she cried. Heap as much anger as you want to upon me, and welcome; but pity the child!

The rain stretched obliquely through the dull atmosphere in liquid spines, unbroken in continuity between their beginnings in the clouds and their points in him.

Joan Durbeyfield always manged to find consolation somewhere: 'Well, as one of the genuine stock, she ought to make her way with 'en, if she plays her trump car aright. And if he don't marry her afore he will after. For that he's all afire wi' love for her any eye can see.' 'What's her trump card? Her d'Urberville blood, you mean?' 'No, stupid; her face - as 'twas mine.

he'd seen a man look a fool a good many times, but never such a fool as that bull looked when he found his pious feelings had been played upon...

The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all. Bathsheba

Rays of male vision seem to have a tickling effect upon virgin faces in rural districts;

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.

And yet you take away the one little ewe-lamb of pleasure that I have in this dull life of mine. Well, perhaps generosity is not a woman's most marked characteristic.

The floating pollen seemed to be his notes made visible, and the dampness of the garden the weeping of the garden's sensibility.

Rolliver's inn, the single alehouse at this end of the long and broken village, could only boast of an off-licence; hence, as nobody could legally drink on the premises, the amount of overt accommodation for consumers was strictly limited to a little board

He was young, and his face, if not exactly handsome, approached so near to handsome that nobody would have contradicted an assertion that it really was so in its natural colour.

in this attribute moral or æsthetic poverty contrasts plausibly with material, since those who suffer do not mind it, whilst those who mind it soon cease to suffer.

Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body?

Not guessing the cause, there was nothing to remind him that experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration.

far away through the plantation Vega sparkled like a lamp suspended amid the leafless trees...

O, if any man wants to make himself immortal by painting a picture of wretchedness, let him come here!

Yes: there; wives be such a provoking class o' society, because though they be never right, they be never more than half wrong.