857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

There are considerations even before my consideration for you; reparations to be made-ties you know nothing of. If you repent of marrying, so do I.

I have been thinking," she continued, still in the tone of one brimful of feeling, "that the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies...

I don't see why a maid should take a husband when she's bold enough to fight her own battles,

Geoffrey's own heart felt inconveniently large just then.

Pourquoi ne m'avez-vous pas dit qu'il y avait du danger avec les hommes?"Tess

Kdyby byl úspěšným člověkem, zažil by úlek, avšak neštěstí je krásným opiátem pro osobní strach.

Láska je potenciální síla ve skutečné slabosti.

To adorn her in somebody else’s eyes; never again in mine.

Anche tra gli individui più soggetti agli sbalzi d'umore, l'inclinazione a rincuorarsi appare più forte di quella a deprimersi; e il peso specifico dell'anima invariabilmente si conferma inferiore rispetto a quello del mare di angosce in cui essa è precipitata.