Thomas Hardy, Far From The Madding Crowd Quotes
We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
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
Gabriel Oak: "It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.
She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.
When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.
He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.
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.
But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting outof love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as ashort cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always
This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.
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.