Far from the Madding Crowd Quotes

“The only superiority in women that is tolerable to the rival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

topic:women

“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

topic:fearneed

“When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

topic:strengthwoman

“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.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

topic:change

“It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

topic:marriage

“Marriage transforms a distraction into a support, the power of which should be, and happily often is, in direct proportion to the degree of imbecility it supplants.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

topic:marriage

“All romances end at marriage.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

topic:marriageromance

“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

topic:marriage

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

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

topic:eyeswant

“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

topic:feelingsrelationship