All Thomas Hardy Quotes
- Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one Beheld
- O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again! All
- Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these… Been
- He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping… Bent
- There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in… Allow
- Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell… Chance
- They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends. Expression
- She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a… All
- ...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes Impulse
- Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness. Influence
- Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had… Anybody
- I forgot the defective can be more than the whole Defective
- What is it, Angel?" she said, starting up. "Have they come for me?" "Yes, dearest," he said. "They have come." "It is as it should… Almost Glad
- My wicked heart will ramble on in spite of myself. (Arabella) Arabella
- Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die… Bed
- To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her… Abstraction
- Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Afraid
- I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger. Belief
- If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst. Better
- Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity. Blending