857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

The flowers in the bride’s hand are sadly like the garland which decked the heifers of sacrifice in old times!”“Still, Sue, it is no worse for the woman than for the man. That’s what some women fail to see, and instead of protesting against the conditions they protest against the man, the other victim; just as a woman in a crowd will abuse the man who crushes against her, when he is only the helpless transmitter of the pressure put upon him.

Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?

I looked up from my writing, And gave a start to see,As if rapt in my inditing, The moon's full gaze on me.

He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.

Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

But there were certain early days in Casterbridge- days of firmamental exhaustion which followed angry south-westerly tempests-when, if the sun shone, the air was like velvet.

Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.

And probably the half-unconscious rhapsody was a Fetichistic utterance in a Monotheistic falsetto; women whose chief companions are the forms and forces of outdoor Nature retain in their souls far more of the Pagan fantasy of their remote forefathers than of the systemized religion taught their race at later date.

'Shall anything bolder be found than united woman?' Mr Spinks murmured.