857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

Po tuo išoriniu kevalu - į jį pašalinis žmogus tik prabėgomis žvilgtertų kaip į nereikšmingą, tiesiog negyvą daiktą - slėpėsi pilna gyvybės siela, kuri, dar jauna būdama, skaudžiai patyrė, kokia menka yra materialinių gėrybių vertė, kokie žiaurūs žmogaus geiduliai ir kokia nepastovi meilė.

But I wish to be enlightened.''Let me caution you against it.''Is enlightenment on the subject, then, so terrible?''Yes, indeed.'She laughingly declared that nothing could have so piqued her curiosity as his statement.

You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.

Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.

He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

I should like the flowers very very much, if I didn’t keep on thinking they’d be all withered in a few days!

She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath.

New love is brightest, and long love is greatest; but revived love is the tenderest thing known upon earth.