Thomas Hardy Quotes

“All romances end at marriage.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

topic:marriage romance

“I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“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.”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

topic:marriage pleasure

“Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity, was now no longer a minor feature in Mrs Angel Clare; and it sustained her.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

topic:courage patience

“And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?”

― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

topic:woman

“The perfect woman, you see, was a working woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who used her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

topic:woman

“Not guessing the cause, there was nothing to remind him that experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

topic:experience

“Every successful man is more or less a selfish man.”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

topic:success

“You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming...”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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