857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

Tess was no insignificant creature to toy with and dismiss; but a woman living her precious life – a life which, to herself who endured or enjoyed it, possessed as great a dimension as the life of the mightiest to himself.

The spring came and calmed her; the summer came and soothed her; the autumn arrived, and she began to be comforted, for her little girl was strong and happy, growing in size and knowledge every day.

There’s a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

And then her cooing voice, plaintive in expostulation, disturbed the darkness, the velvet touch of her lips passed over his brow, and he could distinguish in the air the warmth of her breath.

I wish I had never been born – there or anywhere else.

But since ’tis as ’tis, why, it might have been worse, and I feel my thanks accordingly.

An Elizabeth in brain and a Mary Stuart in spirit.

There are two ways of getting rid of sorrows: one by living them down, the other by drowning them. The coachman drowned his. He informed her that her luggage.

So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and distant hope...