857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women do when they abandon their self-reliance. 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.

He [Mr. Melbury] knew that a woman once given to a man for life took, as a rule, her lot as it came and made the best of it, without external interference; but for the first time he asked himself why this so generally should be done.

Though not fearful of measurable dangers, she feared the unknown.

Esta mujer significa mucho más para mí, incluso muerta de lo que tú hayas significado, signifiques o puedas significar.

Esta mujer significa mucho más para mí, incluso muerta, de lo que tú hayas significado, signifiques o puedas significar.

Cultivate the art of renunciation.

In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked that she was, and forgot that the defective can more than the entire.

Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body?

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.