857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

For a moment he seemed impressed with the speaking loneliness of the scene, or rather with the complete abstraction from all its compass of the sights and sounds of man.

Possibly she would go on inflicting such pains again and again, and grieving for the sufferer again and again, in all her colossal inconsistency.

The pain she experienced from the almost absolute obliviousness to her existence that was shown by the pair of them became at times half dissipated by her sense of its humourousness.

I think that whenever children be born that are not wanted they should be killed directly, before their souls come to ’em, and not allowed to grow big and walk about!

Their eyes having met, became, as it were, mutually locked together,... a clear penetrating ray of intelligence had shot from each into each, giving birth to... , the conviction, ‘A tie has began to unite us.

Tess comprese che malgrado i lunghi mesi di segreti pentimenti, di lotte, di autoraccomandazioni, di programmi per un futuro vissuto in solitudine, il consiglio dell’amore avrebbe vinto.

This was a practical application of the principle that a half-feigned and fictitious faith is better than no faith at all.

You don’t talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.

And yet you take away the one little ewe-lamb of pleasure that I have in this dull life of mine. Well, perhaps generosity is not a woman’s most marked characteristic.