Thomas Hardy Quotes

“I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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“Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.”

― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

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“The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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“An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“Some folk want their luck buttered.”

― Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge

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

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

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“And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be—and whenever I look up there will be you.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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“why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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