Quotes by Thomas Hardy

“I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am. I doubt if I have anything more for my present rule of life than following inclinat...”

“But you will never realize that an incident which filled but a degree in the circle of your thoughts covered the whole circumference of mine. No person can see exactly what and where another's hori...”

“Done because we are too many.”

“Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have 'em?”

“I think that whenever children be born that are not wanted they should be killed directly, before their souls come to 'em, and not allowed to grow big and walk about!”

“Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who h...”

“When women are secret they are secret indeed and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover. ”

“As for his look, it was a natural cheerfulness striving against depression without, and not quite succeeding. The look suggested issolation, but it revealed something more. As Usual with bright nat...”

“He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.”

“I shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all.”

“The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a delicate poise between love and friendship - that period in the history of a love when alone it can b...”

“She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.”

“Gabriel Oak: "It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.”

“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 the touch as yet.”

“When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.”

“He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had before known but darkly - the seasons in their mo...”

“You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.”

“This good-fellowshipcamaraderieusually occurring through similarity of pursuits, is unfortunately seldom superadded to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labours,...”

“Every woman who makes a permanent impression on a man is afterwards recalled to his mind's eye as she appeared in one particular scene, which seems ordained to be her special medium of manifestatio...”

“Ah, dear Jude; that's because you are like a totally deaf manobserving people listening to music. You say 'What are theyregarding? Nothing is there.' But something is.”