“ Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being. Thomas Hardy
“ Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't be yours?''That's the very thing I say to myself,' said Gabriel. Thomas Hardy
“ I shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all. Thomas Hardy
“ Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not… Thomas Hardy
“ Her heart longed for some ark into which it could fly and be at rest. Rough or smooth she did not care, so long as it was warm. Thomas Hardy
“ Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her… Thomas Hardy
“ He Looked and smelt like Autumn's very brother, his face being sunburnt to wheat-colour, his eyes blue as corn-flowers, his sleeves and leggings dyed with fruit-stains, his hands clammy with the sweet… Thomas Hardy
“ Human beings, in their generous endeavour to construct a hypothesis that shall not degrade a First Cause, have always hesitated to conceive a dominant power of lower moral quality than their own; and,… Thomas Hardy
“ It was a fatal omission of Boldwood's that he had never once told her she was beautiful. Thomas Hardy
“ Well, what I mean is that I shouldn’t mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband. But since a woman can’t show off in that way by herself, I shan’t marry—at least not… Thomas Hardy
“ Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable. Thomas Hardy
“ When the love-led man had ceased from his labours Bathsheba came and looked him in the face.'Gabriel, will you you stay on with me?' she said, smiling winningly, and not troubling to bring her lips qu… Thomas Hardy
“ He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society. Thomas Hardy
“ He is as good as anybody in this parish! He is very particular, too, about going to church-yes, he is!''I am afeard nobody ever saw him there. I never did, certainly.''The reason of that is,' she said… Thomas Hardy
“ It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession; with totally d… Thomas Hardy
“ Don't for God's sake speak as saint to sinner, but as you yourself to me myself - poor me! Thomas Hardy
“ The curious double strands in Farfrae's thread of life - the commercial and the romantic - were very distinct at times. Like the colours in a variegated cord those contrasts could be seen intertwisted… Thomas Hardy
