All Thomas Hardy Quotes
- How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O,… All
- Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were… Advanced
- 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… Among
- Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light. Black
- A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away. Any
- Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like… All
- But no one came. Because no one ever does. Came
- That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be… All
- To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. Almost Every
- There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating. Eating
- If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? Decency
- Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a… Deal
- If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do. Doomed
- And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak Fire
- Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess? Blighted
- Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close? Cannot See
- Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing… Admit
- There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen… Bear
- Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter? Entirely
- We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in. According