857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

Their lives were ruined,he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling . . .

I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!

All her shining keys will be took from her, and her cupboards opened, and things a' didn't wish seen, anybody will see; and her little wishes and ways will all be as nothing.

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?

The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.

It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.

You was a good man, and did good things.

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.