Far From the Madding Crowd Quotes

“For it may be argued with great plausibility that reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease, and that expectation in its only comfortable form—that of absolute faith—is practically an impossibility; whilst in the form of hope and the secondary compounds, patience, impatience, resolve, curiosity, it is a constant fluctuation between pleasure and pain.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“Yet Farmer Boldwood, whether by nature kind or the reverse to kind, did not exercise kindness, here. The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“The phases of Boldwood's life were ordinary enough, but his was not an ordinary nature. That stillness, which struck casual observers more than anything else in his character and habit, and seemed so precisely like the rest of inanition, may have been the perfect balance of enormous antagonistic forces—positives and negatives in fine adjustment. His equilibrium disturbed, he was in extremity at once. If an emotion possessed him at all, it ruled him; a feeling not mastering him was entirely latent. Stagnant or rapid, it was never slow. He was always hit mortally, or he was missed.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“To the best of his judgement neither nature nor art could improve this perfect one of an imperfect many. His heart began to move within him.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“The maltster's lack of teeth appeared not to sensibly diminish his powers as a mill. He had been without them for so many years that toothlessness was felt less to be a defect than hard gums an acquisition. Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line—less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“It broke upon her at length as a great pain that her last old disciple was about to forsake her and flee. He who had believed in her and argued on her side when all the rest of the world was against her, had at last like the others become weary and neglectful of the old cause, and was leaving her to fight her battles alone.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“Era una di quelle sere in cui la tristezza può impossessarsi delle persone più allegre senza che ciò provochi alcuna sorpresa; quando negli emotivi l'amore si trasforma in angoscia, la fiducia in desiderio e la speranza precipita nell'apprensione; quando il ricordo non suscita alcun rimpianto per le occasioni che ci sono sfuggite e l'attesa non induce all'azione.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“Esta mujer significa mucho más para mí, incluso muerta, de lo que tú hayas significado, signifiques o puedas significar.”
― Thomas Hardy, Lejos del mundanal ruido (Clásicos de la literatura nº 22)

“Esta mujer significa mucho más para mí, incluso muerta de lo que tú hayas significado, signifiques o puedas significar.”
― Thomas Hardy, Lejos del mundanal ruido (Clásicos de la literatura nº 22)

“La ofendía y le dolía que el amor incondicional de Gabriel, que había llegado a considerar como un derecho inalienable, se le retirase de pronto de ese modo.”
― Thomas Hardy, Lejos del mundanal ruido (Clásicos de la literatura nº 22)

“Se apoderó de ella como un gran dolor la idea de que su último pretendiente estuviese a punto de renunciar y huir. Él, que había creído en ella y se había puesto de su parte cuando el resto del mundo estaba en su contra, finalmente se había hartado como los demás, y la dejaba sola para librar sus batallas.”
― Thomas Hardy, Lejos del mundanal ruido (Clásicos de la literatura nº 22)

“Ojalá hubiera estado sola, como he estado durante el último año, sin esperanzas, ni temores, ni placer, ni dolor.”
― Thomas Hardy, Lejos del mundanal ruido (Clásicos de la literatura nº 22)

“Algunas mujeres sólo necesitan una emergencia para demostrar que son capaces de manejarla.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“Es preciso aclarar que este tipo de jarra, por razones inciertas, recibe en Weatherbury y en sus inmediaciones el nombre de Dios-me-perdone, acaso porque su tamaño hace que cualquier bebedor se avergüence de si mismo al ver el Fondo tras haberla vaciado”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“Then a morsel of snow flew across the river towards the fifth window. It smacked against the wall at a point several yards from its mark. The throw was the idea of a man conjoined with the execution of a woman. No man who had ever seen bird, rabbit, or squirrel in his childhood, could possibly have thrown with such utter imbecility as was shown here.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“Material causes and emotional effects are not to be arranged in regular equation.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“Burning for burning; wound for wound: strife for strife.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“The cluck of their oars was the only sound of any distinctness upon the sea, and as they laboured amid the thickening shades the lamp-lights grew larger, each appearing to send a flaming sword deep down into the waves before it, until there arose, among other dim shapes of the kind, the form of the vessel for which they were bound.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“Now the people sneer at me--the very hills and sky seem to laugh at me till I blush shamefully for my folly. I have lost my respect, my good name, my standing--lost it, never to get it again.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“His equilibrium disturbed, he was in extremity at once. If an emotion possessed him at all, it ruled him; a feeling not mastering him was entirely latent. Stagnant or rapid, it was never slow. He was always hit mortally, or he was missed.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“watched”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“-خانم شما چوپان نمی خواهید؟
دختر روبند از چهره گشود. چهره اش سراپا شگفتی بود. گابریل و دلدار سنگدلش-بت شبا اوردین- رودرروی هم بودند!
بت شبا چیزی نگفت و او بی اندیشه، با صدایی شرمزده و اندوهگین، تکرار کرد:"خانم، چوپان می خواهید؟”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“by”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“Capitulation—”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“vicissitude”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“Idiosyncrasy”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“transient”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“Deriving his idiosyncrasies from both sides of the Channel, he showed at such junctures as the present the inelasticity of the Englishman, together with that blindness to the line where sentiment verges on mawkishness, characteristic of the French.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“Había alcanzado ese momento de la vida en que «joven» deja de ser el calificativo de «hombre» cuando se habla de uno. Se encontraba en la plenitud de su desarrollo masculino, pues su intelecto y sus emociones se hallaban claramente diferenciadas: había pasado la edad en la que la influencia de la juventud mezcla indiscriminadamente ambas cosas, produciendo un carácter impulsivo, pero aún no había alcanzado esa otra en la que vuelven a conciliarse para producir un carácter aprensivo, por la influencia de la esposa y la familia. En resumidas cuentas , tenía veintiocho años y estaba soltero.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“Era caduto dal suo modesto trono di re pastore fin giù, negli abissi melmosi di Siddim; ma gli erano rimaste una calma dignitosa che non aveva mai conosciuto prima e quell'indifferenza al destino che, benché spesso faccia dell'uomo un violento, diversamente è la base della sua sublimazione. Insomma, la sua caduta in basso era diventata un'ascesa, la perdita un guadagno.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd