Jude the Obscure Quotes

“Some women's love of being loved is insatiable; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the last case they may find that they can't give it continuously to the chamber-officer appointed by the bishop's licence to receive it.”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

topic:love marriage

“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!”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

topic:love heart passion

“Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

topic:women thinking

“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

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

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

topic:success

“All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care.”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

topic:children care

“his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.”

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

topic:dreams ambition

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

― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

topic:relationship

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