All Thomas Hardy Quotes
- I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect. Bad
- Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most… Constrained
- You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold… Beaten
- I. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in her guest's, and… All
- A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years. Better
- It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity Gave
- He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with… Among
- Bless thy simplicity, Tess Bless
- You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the… Cheeks
- She was but a transient impression, half forgotten. Forgotten
- In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour… Call
- When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines. Blue
- It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion… Adventitious
- It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet… Beautiful
- My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all. All
- It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than… Addressed
- This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and… Added
- I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die. Certain
- Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks… Guard
- Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know. All