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Thomas Hardy quotes

English Novelist June 2, 1840 – January 11, 1928

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Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture. Thomas Hardy
Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenances begin to cramp natural feeling, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough. Thomas Hardy
What woman, indeed, among the most faithful adherents of the truth, believes the promises and threats of the Word in the sense in which she believes in her own children, or would not throw her theology to the wind if weighed against their happiness? Thomas Hardy
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail... Thomas Hardy
And in being forced to class herself among the fortunate she did not cease to wonder at the persistence of the unforeseen, when the one to whom such unbroken tranquility had been accorded in the adult stage was she whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain. Thomas Hardy
There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness. Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain."
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain. Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "happiness [is] but the occasional episode in a general drama..."
happiness [is] but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain. Thomas Hardy
You are Joseph the dreamer of dreams, dear Jude. And a tragic Don Quixote. And sometimes you are St. Stephen, who, while theywere stoning him, could see Heaven opened. Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet! Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to..."
The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones") Thomas Hardy
She showed that oblique-mannered softness which is perhaps more frequent in women of darker complexion and more lymphatic temperament than Mrs. Charmond’s was; women who lingeringly smile their meanings to men rather than speak to them, who inveigle rather than prompt, and take advantage of currents rather than steer. Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy quote: "There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating."
There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating. Thomas Hardy
She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought. Thomas Hardy
They spoke very little of their mutual feelings: pretty phrases and warm attentions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends. Thomas Hardy
They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends. Thomas Hardy

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