857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

You simply mean that you flirted outrageously with him, poor old chap, and then repented, and to make reparation, married him, though you tortured yourself to death by doing it.

Kiss my foot, sir; my face is for mouths of consequence.

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain.She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found on an illusion. She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself.

This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly

She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct.

He was young, and his face, if not exactly handsome, approached so near to handsome that nobody would have contradicted an assertion that it really was so in its natural colour.

Beauty to her, as to all who have felt, lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

Tell him everything; it is best. He will forgive you.

All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.