857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

you temptress,Tess; you dear damned witch of Babylon- I could not resist you as soon as I met you again.

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

The floating pollen seemed to be his notes made visible, and the dampness of the garden the weeping of the garden's sensibility.

To escape the past and all that appertained thereto was to annihilate it, and to do that she would have to get away

En la imperfecta ordenación de las cosas del mundo rara vez surge la criatura invocada; rara vez el hombre digno de ser amado coincide con la hora de amar.

He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains, his hands clammy with the sweet juice of apples, his hat sprinkled with pips, and everywhere about him the sweet atmosphere of cider which at its first return each season has such an indescribable fascination for those who have been born and bred among the orchards.

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.

Human beings, in their generous endeavour to construct a hypothesis that shall not degrade a First Cause, have always hesitated to conceive a dominant power of lower moral quality than their own; and, even while they sit down and weep by the waters of Babylon, invent excuses for the oppression which prompts their tears.