857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

I have been thinking that the social moulds civilisation fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies....

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

But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained.

a day which had a summer face and a winter constitution

the voice was unexpectedly attractive...common in descriptions, rare in experince.

Her suspense was terrible.

Love begins with a sense of superior discernment.

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.