857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

So that, whatever the stars were made for, they were not made to please our eyes. It is just the same in everything; nothing is made for man.

By making inquiries he found that the girl’s name was Bathsheba Everdene, and that the cow would go dry in about seven days. He dreaded the eighth day.

Perfect, he, as a lover, might have called them off-hand. But no – they were not perfect. and it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.

What I am in worldly estate, she is. What I become, she must become. What I cannot be, she cannot be. And shall I ever neglect her, or hurt her, or even forget to consider her? God forbid such a crime!

This supreme instance of Troy’s goodness fell upon Gabriel’s ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. The scales are balanced so nicely that a feather would turn them.

She had been made to break an accepted social law, but no law known to the environment in which she fancied herself such an anomaly.

The chief pleasure connected with asking an opinion lies in not adopting it.

The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself.