Far From the Madding Crowd Quotes

“He is a sort of steady man in a wild way, you know. That's better than to be as some are, wild in a steady way. I am afraid that's how I am.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“لأن الرجال مخلوفات غبية ومخلصة! و قد يحاولون التغلب على مشاعر الحب في داخلهم ولكن الجميع سيغرق في الحزن و الكآبة.”
― Thomas Hardy, بعيداً عن الناس

“Kiss my foot, sir; my face is for mouths of consequence.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“What a fool she must have been ever to have had anything to do with the man!”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“There was a change in Boldwood's exterior from its former impassibleness; and his face showed that he was now living outside his defences for the first time, and with a fearful sense of exposure. It is the usual experience of strong natures when they love.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“God was palpably present in the country, and the devil had gone with the world to town.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by;”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“Stupors, however, do not last forever”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“There are occasions when girls like Bathsheba will put up with a great deal of unconventional behavior. When they want to be praised, which is often; when they want to be mastered, which is sometimes; and when they want no nonsense, which is seldom.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“The vast difference between starting a train of events, and directing into a particular groove a series already started, is rarely apparent to the person confounded by the issue.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“but there was left to him a dignified calm he had never before known, and that indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“Very well,” said Oak, firmly, with the bearing of one who was going to give his days and nights to Ecclesiastes for ever.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“To speak like a book I once read, wet weather is the narrative, and fine days are the episodes, of our country's history;”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“Such a women as you a hundred men always convet - your eyes will bewitch scores on scores into an unvailing fancy for you - you can only marry one of that many...The rest may try to get over their passion with more or less success. But all of these men will be saddened. And not only those ninety-nine men, but the ninety-nine women they might have married are saddened with them. There's my tale. That's why I say that a woman so charming as yourself, Miss Everdene, is hardly a blessing to her race.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“But what between the poor men I won't have, and the rich men who won't have me, I stand as a pelican in the wilderness!”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“He had sunk from his modest elevation as pastoral king into the very slime pits of Siddim; but there was left to him a dignified calm he had never before known, and that indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not. And thus the abasement had been exaltation, and the loss gain.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From The Madding Crowd

“He had just reached the time of life at which 'young' is ceasing to be the prefix of 'man' in speaking of one. He was at the brightest period of masculine life, for his intellect and emotions were clearly separate; he had passed the time during which the influence of youth indiscriminately mingles them in the character of impulse, and he had not yet arrived at the state wherin they become united again, in the character of prejudice, by the influence of a wife and family.In short he was twenty-eight and a bachelor.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“The first man he came to was running about in a great hurry, as if his thoughts were several yards in advance of his body, which they could never drag on fastt enough.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“A man's body is as the shell, or the tablet, of his soul, as he is reserved or ingenuous, overflowing or self-contained.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“I wish I could say courteous flatteries to you," the farmer continued in an easier tone, "and put my rugged feeling into a graceful shape: but I have neither power nor patience to learn such things.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. My”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“It troubled her much to see what a great flame a little wildfire was likely to kindle.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“He could in this way be one thing and seem another: for instance, he could speak of love and think of dinner: call on the husband to look at the wife: be eager to pay and intend to owe.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“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. Gabriel lately, for the first time since his prostration by misfortune, had been independent in thought and vigorous in action to a marked extent-conditions which, powerless without an opportunity as an opportunity without them is barren, would have given him a sure lift upwards when the favourable conjunction should have occurred. But this incurable loitering beside Bathsheba Everdene stole his time ruinously. The spring tides were going by without floating him off, and the neap might soon come which could not.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“The Dog-star and Aldebaran, pointing to the restless Pleiades, were half-way up the Southern sky, and between them hung Orion, which gorgeous constellation never burnt more vividly than now, as it soared forth above the rim of the landscape. Castor and Pollux with their quiet shine were almost on the meridian: the barren and gloomy Square of Pegasus was creeping round to the north-west; far away through the plantation Vega sparkled like a lamp suspended amid the leafless trees, and Cassiopeia's chair stood daintily poised on the uppermost boughs. "One o'clock," said Gabriel.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“I will help to my last breath the woman I have loved so dearly.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“She simply observed herself as a fair product of Nature in the feminine kind, her thoughts seeming to glide into far-off though likely dramas in which men would play a part—vistas of probable triumphs—the smiles being of a phase suggesting that hearts were imagined as lost and won.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“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, Far From the Madding Crowd