Quotes by : Thomas Hardy

Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the....

Ah, dear Jude; that's because you are like a totally deaf manobserving people listening to music. You....

The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods,....

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

The next morning, when Thomasin withdrew the curtains of her bedroom window, there stood the Maypole....

Gabriel Oak: "It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.

How very lovable her face was to him. Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality,....

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

War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.