857 Quotes by Thomas Hardy

Dazzled by brass and scarlet – O, Bathsheba – this is a woman’s folly indeed!

There was a change in Boldwood’s exterior from its former impassibleness; and his face showed that he was now living outside his defences for the first time, and with a fearful sense of exposure. It is the usual experience of strong natures when they love.

Her back seemed to be endowed with a sensitiveness to occular beams...

No average man will molest a woman by day or night, at home or abroad, unless she invites him. Until she says by a look “Come on” he is always afraid to, and if you never say it, or look it, he never comes.

I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books.

You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always.

He walked from one window to another and became aware that the most irksome of solitudes is not the solitude of remoteness, but that which is just outside desirable company.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.