Far From the Madding Crowd Quotes

“Whilst I would have given worlds to touch your hand, you have let a rake come in without right or ceremony and—kiss you! Heaven’s mercy—kiss you!”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“It was Wisdom in the abstract facing Folly in the concrete.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“Those who have the power of reproaching in silence may find it a means more effective than words. There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“I've been troubled with weak moments lately, 'tis true. I've been drinky once this month already, and I did not go to church a-Sunday, and I dropped a curse or two yesterday; so I don't want to go too far for my safety. Your next world is your next world, and not to be squandered offhand." "I”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“But a resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“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 differing aims the method is the same on both sides.”
― 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; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all. Henery”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“A hot breeze, as if breathed from the parted lips of some dragon about to swallow the globe,...”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“Oh yes,” she said, quickly. “I know all that. But don’t talk of it—seven or six years—where may we all be by that time?” “They will soon glide by, and it will seem an astonishingly short time to look back upon when they are past—much less than to look forward to now.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“فقال جبرييل: لا لا داعي لذلك، فالقذارة لا تقلقني إذا كنت أعرف نوعها”
― Thomas Hardy, بعيداً عن الناس

“Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. 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.”
― 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 patient to learn such things. I want you for my wife — so wildly that no other feeling can abide in me; but I should not have spoken out had I not been led to hope.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“I can make you happy,” said he to the back of her head, across the bush. “You shall have a piano in a year or two—farmers’ wives are getting to have pianos now—and I’ll practise up the flute right well to play with you in the evenings.” “Yes; I should like that.” “And have one of those little ten-pound gigs for market—and nice flowers, and birds—cocks and hens I mean, because they be useful,” continued Gabriel, feeling balanced between poetry and practicality. “I should like it very much.” “And a frame for cucumbers—like a gentleman and lady.” “Yes.” “And when the wedding was over, we’d have it put in the newspaper list of marriages.” “Dearly I should like that!” “And the babies in the births—every man jack of ‘em! And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be—and whenever I look up there will be you.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“Her love was entire as a child's, and though warm as summer it was as fresh as spring.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“...as Milton's Satan first saw Paradise.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“...far away through the plantation Vega sparkled like a lamp suspended amid the leafless trees...”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“You know what that feeling is," continued Boldwood, deliberately. "A thing strong as death. No dismissal by a hasty letter affects that.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“For, as without law there is no sin, without eyes there is no indecorum;”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“Yes- I must own it- I am bright-tonight: cheerful and more than cheerful- so much so that I am almost sad again with the sense that all of it passing away. And sometimes, when I am excessively hopeful and blithe , a trouble is looming in the distance: so that I often get to look upon gloom in me with content, and to fear a happy mood. Still this maybe be absurd- I feel that it is absurd. Perhaps my day is dawning at last”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“No. When I want a broad-minded opinion for general enlightenment, distinct from special advice, I never go to a man who deals in the subject professionally.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“one who felt himself to occupy morally that vast middle space of Laodicean neutrality which lay between the Communion people of the parish and the drunken section,—that is, he went to church, but yawned privately by the time the congregation reached the Nicene creed, and thought of what there would be for dinner when he meant to be listening to the sermon.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd: By Thomas Hardy- Illustrated And Unabridged

“Es difícil para una mujer definir sus sentimientos en un lenguaje creado principalmente por el hombre para expresar los suyos.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“...'I wouldn't think of giving such trouble to neighbors in washing up when there's so much work to be done in the world already,'...”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“There is a loquacity that tells nothing, which was Bathsheba’s; and there is a silence which says much: that was Gabriel’s.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

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― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

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― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“But the smallness of the exception made the mystery.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“the more emphatic the renunciation the less absolute its character.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“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 yet.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“The joys of life are transitory and the moments of joy may be turned to bitterness by time.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd By Thomas Hardy Annotated Novel