Thomas Hardy Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.”
-- Thomas HardySource : Thomas Hardy (2011). “Under the Greenwood Tree: Or the Mellstock Quire: a Rural Painting of the Dutch School”, p.9, The Floating Press
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“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.”
-- Thomas HardySource : Thomas Hardy, Joanna Cullen Brown (1990). “Let me enjoy the earth: Thomas Hardy and nature”
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“You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!”
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“The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.”
-- Thomas HardySource : Thomas Hardy, Michael Millgate (1984). “The life and work of Thomas Hardy”
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“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.”
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“People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.”
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“Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.”
-- Thomas HardySource : Thomas Hardy (2012). “Jude the Obscure”, p.267, Courier Corporation
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“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.”
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“The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.”
-- Thomas HardySource : Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.12, e-artnow
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“The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.”
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“The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.”
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“There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.”
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“Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.”
-- Thomas HardySource : 1945 English Cricket.
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“Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?”
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“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 birds sing.”
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“We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.”
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“And yet to every bad there is a worse.”
-- Thomas HardySource : Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Woodlanders”, p.238, Xist Publishing
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“Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”
-- Thomas HardySource : Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman”, p.360, Thomas Hardy
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“Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?”
-- Thomas HardySource : Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1764, Delphi Classics
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“Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.”
-- Thomas HardySource : Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë (2016). “Classic British Love Stories: Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Jane Eyre”, p.680, Open Road Media
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“There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.”
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“There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.”
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“To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was.”
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“Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.”
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“So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope....”
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“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 man. The devoted fail...”
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“I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.”
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“My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.”
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“It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.”
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“The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.”
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