Thomas Hardy Quotes - Page 13 | Just Great DataBase

However you have lived, Sue, I believe you are as innocent as you are unconventional!

She was in a sound sleep, Jude, dying of anxiety lest she should have caught a chill which might permanently injure her, was glad to hear the regular breathing. He softly went nearer to her, and observed that a warm flush now rosed her hitherto blue cheeks, and felt that her hanging hand was no longer cold. Then he stood with his back to the fire regarding her, and saw in her almost a divinity.

A cloud that has gathered over us; though 'we have wronged no man, corrupted no man, defrauded no man!' Though perhaps we have 'done that which was right in our own eyes.

For the present he was outside the gates of everything, colleges included: perhaps some day he would be inside. Those palaces of light and leading; he might some day look down on the world through their panes.

But it was also obvious that man could not live by work alone; that the particular man Jude, at any rate, wanted something to love.

Every desired renewal of an existence is debased by being half alloy.

Beautiful city! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene!… Her ineffable charm keeps ever calling us to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection

Is it that the women are to blame; or is it the artificial system of things, under which the normal sex-impulses are turned into devilish domestic gins and springes to noose and hold back those who want to progress?

The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.

To speak like a book I once read, wet weather is the narrative, and fine days are the episodes, of our country's history;

She simply observed herself as a fair product of Nature in the feminine kind, her thoughts seeming to glide into far-off though likely dramas in which men would play a part—vistas of probable triumphs—the smiles being of a phase suggesting that hearts were imagined as lost and won.

I don't see why a maid should take a husband when she's bold enough to fight her own battles,

But what between the poor men I won't have, and the rich men who won't have me, I stand as a pelican in the wilderness!

In making even horizontal and clear inspections we colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

I shall do one thing in this life – one thing certain – that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.

There are occasions when girls like Bathsheba will put up with a great deal of unconventional behavior. When they want to be praised, which is often; when they want to be mastered, which is sometimes; and when they want no nonsense, which is seldom.

As soon as she could discern the outline of the house, it had all its old effect upon Tess's imagination. Part of her body and life it ever seemed to be; the slope of its dormers, the finish of its gables, the broken courses of brick which topped the chimney, all had something in common with her personal character.

Thus, neither having the clue to the other’s secret, they were respectively puzzled at what each revealed, and awaited new knowledge of each other’s character and moods without attempting to pry into each other’s history.

I don't--know about ghosts, but I do know that our souls can be made to go outside our bodies when we are alive... A very easy way to feel 'em go is to lie on the grass at night, and look straight up at some big bright star; and by fixing your mind upon it you will soon find that you are hundreds and hundreds o' miles away from your body, which you don't seem to want at all.

Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it, Tess?" murmured Abraham through his tears.